[ale] Linux & dual processors

Josh Murrah jmurrah at spaceghost.salug.org
Thu Aug 7 00:09:23 EDT 1997


Anybody who can beat Solaris at their own game is very cool in my book  :)


Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu wrote:

> On  6 Aug, Vernard Martin wrote:
> >> Has anyone any info on Linux and a plan to
> >> support dual processing?
> > 
> > The Linux 2.X kernels support SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) built in for
> > Intel platforms. All you have to do it s recompile the kernel withe the option 
> > turned on and reboot.  Works on most dual and quad processor pentium
> > motherboards.
> 
> David Miller just announced Sparc SMP as well.
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> --
> Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu
> 






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