On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:06 +0200, dragoran wrote:
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike(a)cchtml.com wrote:
>
>> Why are the people in charge of the kernel RPM making seperate RPMs for
>> non-SMP and SMP?
>>
>
> probably because SMP kernels do not boot on a large number of UP
> machines....
>
why? does nosmp helps here?
things like APICs confusing SMM code, defective MP tables....
and traditionally on FC the smp kernel enabled also PAE, which isn't
implemented on several popular UP-only processors....