does FC6 support smp hardware arhitecture?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 11:32:14 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:34 +0000, Mark Knoop wrote:
> On 07/02/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:57 +0800, "欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au)" wrote:
> > > Can FC6 take advantage of multiple cpu's?
> >
> > Yes.
> > As far as I remember, fedora-smp-kernel is configured to support <= 32
> > cores.
> >
> > > Do I need a special version of the kernel?
> >
> > In x86_64 all kernels are SMP.
> > In i386  - Anaconda (the installer) will select the SMP kernel for you.
> 
> Actually the i386 kernels are all SMP also.
> 
> <release notes>
> 
> Default Kernel Provides SMP
> 
> There is no separate SMP kernel available for Fedora Core 6 on i386,
> x86_64 and ppc64. Multiprocessor support is provided by the native
> kernel.

i386 includes both i586 kernels and i686 kernel.
AFAIR i586 is UP.

- Gilboa




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