Hi, Colin Watson writes:
> ... or patch the serial console driver in some way that doesn't > break too badly on either ... We tried this, but our fixes didn't work. And there have been discussions among the kernel hackers recently, with no substantial outcome. > 27MB more space on powerpc CD 1, AFAICS, the SMP kernels run fine on UP machines. There have been claims that this comes at a performance hit, if someone convinces me otherwise, we could drop all UP flavours and rename the SMP flavours, omitting the -smp in the name. This would save more than 50MB. > It's not cheap at all. As it stands, it's the price to pay for supporting the major flagships of the PowerPC architecture out of the box. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
