686-smp kernels old?

[Trent Lloyd]

I beleive that the default 686 kernel is now compiled with SMP by
default, see /proc/cpuinfo.

the non-version-specific smp packages should probably be morgued.

Cheers,
Trent

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:49:39PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> In Dapper, looking at synaptic,
> 
> - The latest version of linux-image-686 is 2.6.15.18 (but currently
> brings in linux-image-2.6.15-19-686).
> - But the latest version of linux-image-686-smp is 2.6.12.16.1 (but
> brings in linux-image-2.6.12.10-686-smp).
> 
> I perceive that my system is slower when not using a -smp kernel.
> 
> Is there a good reason that the smp kernels are so far behind? I fear
> that I'd lose a lot of bug fixes if I stayed with those old -smp
> versions.
> 
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