No SMP on DuoCore2

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 19:43:22 UTC 2007


On 13/02/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > I've noticed that I don't have a *-smp kernel on my DuoCore2 Dell
> > laptop running FC6. The DuoCore processor is, as the name implies, a
> > dual core processor, so should I install the *-smp kernel?
>
> The default (non i586) kernel is SMP now even for single core beasties.
>
> cat /proc/version
[dotancohen at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
(brewbuilder at hs20-bc2-2.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105
(Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:28:18 EST 2007

Yes, there it is!

> to see if you have SMP in there, if not, you may have been bitten by the
> anaconda bug that installs an i586 kernel on boxes that are better off
> with the i686 one.  Find out definitively by
>
> rpm -q kernel --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n"
>


[dotancohen at localhost ~]$ rpm -q kernel --queryformat
"%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n"
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686
kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.i686

Well, then again there it isn't.

Dotan Cohen

http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_hdtv.html
http://fedoranewbie.com




More information about the fedora-list mailing list