[27161] in Athena Bugs
Re: SMP kernels for Core 2 Duos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Jan 14 23:02:11 2008
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To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:01:53 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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> As per Zephyr discussion, I am reporting on behalf of a user that the Core
> 2 Duo Athena machines (the Dell 755s, among others) might benefit from an
> SMP kernel, but the installer only installs a regular kernel.
Thanks for reporting this, and sorry about the slow reply. As of the
last patch release (9.4.46, which went public on 4 January 2008), the SMP
kernel is now included in the release, and machines which are SMP-capable
should get the smp kernel as their boot default.
Andrew Boardman/ZINC/ISDA/IS&T/MIT +1.617.253.4040 amb@mit.edu
