Automatic SMP?

[Mike]

Slide wrote:
>>
>> You seems to be misrepresenting the kernel change.  Since Linux 2.2 you
>> could mix and match kernels (SMP or not) with systems (SMP or not)
>> however you'd like.  SMP was automatically detected and utilized.
>>
>> The "SMP Alternatives" added in 2.6.17 allows an SMP kernel become a 
>> true
>> UP kernel AND avoid the locking overhead (the reverse can be true too).
>> A UP system still has the bloat of all those NO-OPs though.
>>
>>     http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/
>>     http://lwn.net/Articles/163810/
>>
>> I think this change maybe a bit too recent for support by distributions.
>>
>>         -Paul
>>
>
>
> Ah, you are correct, I was thinking of something else. The 2.6.17
> kernel is masked in gentoo's portage, I've been meaning to try it.
>
> slide
It was out right away for sid. I was sort of waiting around for it since 
it is the first to be built with gcc 4.1 rather than 4.0 from the 
standard repo's.

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=2.6.17&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all

-Mike