On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:38:38PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Anyway, I would like to have an smp kernel readily available in Debian. > Mandrake for example installs the SMP kernel by default if the target > machine is a smp box. If another kernel-image is needed to support that > I can life with only UP. > > Basically I don't care if our distributed kernels squeeze the last 10% > out of the processor(s). But in an ideal world it should at least support all > installed processors so that I don't lose 100% compared to a custom kernel. > Anyway, if it's impossible to do that without adding bloat I can do without. Instead of creating lots of different kernel-image packages what about a package that can create a kernel-image from source and gives you a list of some more or less generic kernel to choose from?
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