Fedora / AMD-64

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Thu Apr 22 16:06:15 EDT 2004


Here's the output of ls -1 kern* from the current X86 RPM directory:

kernel-2.6.5-1.326.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.5-1.326.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.326.x86_64.rpm
kernel-source-2.6.5-1.326.x86_64.rpm
kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.127.x86_64.rpm

Looks like smp is there to me.

Whitley CTR Cecil H writes:
> Hi Janina,
> Have they backported all the fixes to 2.4 for a-64 Fedora core 1?  Isn't
> core 2 totally 2.6 based?  
> 
> As for gentoo and smp support, I believe they used the 2.6 kernel for smp,
> and that's what gives the problem.  I would guess that you could compile a
> 2.4 kernel with smp support though....  I've been intending to load Linux on
> my new machine, but haven't yet.  It's easier to find excuses not to, rather
> than doing the work.  Of course, with all the old hardware i've got laying
> around I could stand up a couple systems that would run just fine.  
> 
> Cecil
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