Kernel 2.6.17 RPM builds

[dragoran]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike at cchtml.com wrote:
>   
>> Why are the people in charge of the kernel RPM making seperate RPMs for
>> non-SMP and SMP?
>>     
>
> probably because SMP kernels do not boot on a large number of UP
> machines....
>   
why? does nosmp helps here?
> 2.6.17 doesn't change that; all 2.6.17 changes is that the cost of
> spinlocks gets reduced somewhat... (but not annihilated entirely)
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