No SMP on DuoCore2

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Tue Feb 13 12:26:06 UTC 2007


On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> I've noticed that I don't have a *-smp kernel on my DuoCore2 Dell
> laptop running FC6. The DuoCore processor is, as the name implies, a
> dual core processor, so should I install the *-smp kernel?

What does "uname -v" say?

Newer kernels don't get compiled for SMP and non-SMP procesors. It's one 
kernel which detects the procesor(s) and uses the parameters needed.

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