Linux-image-686 : Obsoleted ?
Mario Vukelic
mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Thu Nov 16 19:46:20 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 14:21 -0500, Gregory PiƱero wrote:
> How does this affect dual core CPU's though? I was told that one
> needs -686 to actually use dual cores at the same time. Please
> advise.
>
> And my experience seems to bear that out. I installed dapper on a
> dual core machine about two months ago. After install, cat
> /proc/cpuinfo showed only one CPU, but then I did
> sudo apt-get install linux-686-smp and after that cat /proc/cpuinfo
> showed two CPUs.
* Breezy: *-686 kernel for uniproc, *-686-smp for multiproc
* Dapper: only *-686 which supports both uni- and multiproc
(*-686-smp metapackages only there to support upgrades from
Breezy, but actually obsolete)
* Edgy: no specific *-686 build anymore, *-generic supports all
CPUs of Intel x86 architecture, both uni- and multiproc
Regards,
Mario
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