[Vectorlinux-devel] 2.6.17 and SMP kernel

[Jose J. R. <jo...@gm...>]

Some of you may know I've been asking to include SMP enabled kernels
in VL for some time now. It's been quite a while since hyperthreading
came out, not to mention the current craze with dual-core
architectures, that I figured it was an important step to take. Now it
seems it will become very easy to support this with a new feature of
the 2.6.17 kernel:

"X86 "SMP alternatives" (optimizes a single kernel image at runtime
according with the available platform)"

Check out this article:
http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/

Regards,
Joe1962