Re: SMP

[Jesse Pollard]

>I would like to compile a SMP-aware kernel, but the Slackware versions I'm
>using (3.3 and 3.6) do not have "make menuconfig" options for
>multi-processors.  How do I configure a kernel for multi-processor, and how
>many apps on the OS will actually take advantage of more than 1 CPU?
>Under 3.3 and 3.6, the kernel version was 2.0.33/34. Both required the
>commented out line in the top-level Makefile to inserted.

The line contains "SMP=1" which enabled SMP options in the compile.

You might better choose to get a current stable tarball (2.2.x). These should
have a SMP option in the menuconfig.

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Jesse I Pollard, II
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