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Ian Pilcher i.pilcher at comcast.net
Wed Jul 6 12:26:59 UTC 2005


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:13 -0400, Build System wrote:
> 
>>- Drop x86-64 SMP kernels, and make generic kernel use SMP.
> 
> 
> why is this??
> 
> 

Presumably it's because so many processors these days are either Hyper-
Threaded or (soon) dual-core.  At some point, the benefit of building
and shipping uni-processor kernels is less than the cost.

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