On 31 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote: > Not those specific machines.
SGI? > > There are separate kernels for one CPU and multiple CPUs (aka SMP). > You need a whole new kernel, since the changes are intrusive and > wide-spread. But it's done with a single sleection in `make > menuconfig`, the first step in compiling your own kernel. Note that > all modules need to be recompiled as well. I'm quite familiar with recompiling Linux kernel. > A standard uniprocessor kernel runs on a multi-processor system, so > installation, etc, works. Problem is, the machine is currently running on a single-processor, and I'd like to know whether if I add a new processor card on the machine, the kernel would recognize the added CPU (after recompiling the kernel, of course). Oki
