SMP Support In Boot Kernel

Guest · Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 7:13 pm Post subject: SMP Support In Boot Kernel

Please compile SMP support into the boot kernel. It will make the build process faster for those of us with such machines

id10t · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 100

Yes please!

Also, is there anyway to re-build the entire system as being SMP aware - the base glibc included?
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TheWart · Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 8:16 pm Post subject:

yea, that is one thing i am suprised they have not done yet. It cant be becasue they are short in space, the iso is only 16mb big
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

autoxv6 · n00b Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 8

smp please in future boot kernels

it would definitely help us smp users

trapni · Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: SMP Support In Boot Kernel

Sivar · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 266 Location: USA

One can have a SMP kernel *AND* a "-j" option as the default for Make without causing problems for single CPU users. I run just such a kernel on my non-SMP system (I have a dualie board, but one of the two CPUs has been in another system for some time) The -j for make will make the build process a few percent points slower for non-SMP users, but that will not be noticeable.

If it isn't the case already, the data put on the .ISO could be build with the -Os option to reduce its size. It wouldn't be quite as fast, but it is only used furing installation anyway. Speaking of which, why would they need to keep stage1 under 16MB?
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alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

Personally, I like my downloads small. There is absolutely no reason to keep it under a certain size, except that it's small. Plus, you can fit it on those bootable buisness cards and whatnot. That's coolness.

abombss · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Chicago, IL

Has anyone found out any tweaks to get smp support during the bootstrap yet?

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

If you guys really need this why not just add your own kernel to the iso ?
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Shak · Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2002 10:21 am Post subject:

How would you add the SMP kernel to the ISOLinux installer?

Shak

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Shak · Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2002 10:29 am Post subject:

Thanks, AutoBot, were you in IRC yesterday when we were discussing it?

Shak

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