SMP Kernel on non-SMP Machine

Steven Ringwald asric at asric.com
Thu Aug 17 16:01:59 UTC 2006


W Strater wrote:
>
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca 
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
> bogomips        : 5586.39
>
> I got my self into this problem because I downloaded kernel.devel to 
> build a VPN client not realizing there was a separrate source code for 
> the SMP kernel. Needless to say, I could not install the module I 
> built and went looking for the culprit.

You will want to install the kernel-smp-devel package. These are the 
header files needed to link new kernel modules in.

The 'ht' flag above indicates that you have a hyperthreading capable proc.

Steve





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