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
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