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

[Yiping Chen]

So, I have two question now, 
1. how to determine whether your kernel support SMP?
    Somebody taugh me that you can type  "uname -r", but it seems not
correct.
2. I remember in 2.2.x, when I rebuild the kernel which support SMP, the
compile
    argument will include -D__SMP__ , but this time, when I rebuild kernel
2.4.2-2 , it didn't  appear.
    Why? 

Anyway, thanks for  Vivek's answer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vivek Dasmohapatra [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:20 PM
To: Yiping Chen
Cc: '[e-mail]'
Subject: Re: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

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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