Fedora Kernel Sources

Leon sdl.web at gmail.com
Sun May 21 21:04:23 UTC 2006


Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> writes:

> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:36:51PM +0100, Leon wrote:
>
>  > >> > Install the kernel-devel package which matches your kernel and you'll be
>  > >> > able to build modules the normal way; you don't need the full sources
>  > >> > for that.
>  > >> 
>  > >> On a related note, what ever happened to the kernel-smp and
>  > >> kernel-smp-devel packages?
>  > >
>  > > All rawhide kernels now have SMP turned on by default, even for UP
>  > > machines.
>  > 
>  > Any benefit of this?
>
> Takes up less space on CD / mirrors, quicker build times, negligable overhead.
> Right now it's an experiment, it may turn out to be a bad idea. We'll see
> how things look after FC6-test1 results come back.
>
> 		Dave
>

Would it compromise the performance of uni processor machines?

-- 
Leon




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