Automatic SMP?

[Alan Dayley]

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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> I was working on the assumption that the question was if SUSE would detect if 
> the CPU was SMP or not during the installation and automatically install the 
> single or SMP-enabled version of the kernel based on that.  Since SUSE 
> doesn't ship 2.6.17 (and, I imagine, only Gentoo does at this point), 
> assuming that the kernel would detect the CPU type and adapt isn't really an 
> option.

Final report on this issue:

I was playing with the system again, figuring out how to get the health
monitoring software installed.  Doing a 'uname -a' the system reports
kernel 'linux-smp-2.16...' so it is already running SMP.

I just did a usual install of OpenSUSE 10.1 without explicitly
requesting SMP.  The installer automatically configured it.  I did the
online updates during the install.  I assume that is when it
reconfigured for SMP.  Unless it has that kernel on the install discs
anyway.

Whatever the reason, the SMP issue was automatically handled by
OpenSUSE.  You were correct, Kurt.  Nice!

Alan
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