Linux w/ smp - is it necessary to build arla special?

Magnus Ahltorp map at stacken.kth.se
Wed Feb 24 23:11:57 CET 1999


> Is it necessary to build arla special on an SMP machine, or will a non-smp
> build work?
> 
> If the non-SMP build will work, it saves me from having to maintain two
> separate builds of arla.

I'm sorry, but the kernel module is compiled differently, since the
locking macros look different in SMP and non-SMP (the interprocessor
locking is removed on non-SMP kernels).

It is however, possible to run an SMP kernel on a UP machine.

/Magnus
map at stacken.kth.se





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