On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Paul Civati wrote:

> > Can someone give a quick expalation of the differences between GENERIC and
> > GENERIC.MP?
> 
> GENERIC.MP adds support for detection of multiple processors on machines
> that have them.
> 
> But seeing as there is currently (although work in progress) no SMP
> functionality in the kernel the usefulness other than looking quite
> cool ;) is debatable.
> 
> I suppose it's the beginnings of the architecture dependent part.

Excellent!  So there are no differences in terms of "when two cpus are
installed, bit x must be twiddled clockwise so that things continue to
work..." type of changes to it?  One should be able to interchange GENERIC
and GENERIC.MP on _any_ machine with any number of CPUs?

I realize that the second, third, etc... CPU isn't going to be used yet.

Thanks again,

-Jon
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