Re: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

Vivek Dasmohapatra (vivek@etla.org)
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:20:25 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote:

> My question is why the result of 'uname -r' is not "2.4.2-2smp" , but
> "2.4.2-2"

This is just the label as defined by the entries in the top-level
Makefile, eg:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 3
EXTRAVERSION = -ac5

> Whether I forgot to do something?

You can edit the extraversion value if you want to label your smp kernels
differently, but you don't have to.

You'll probably find you _have_ compiled an SMP kernel - see what
/proc/cpuinfo says, for example.

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