What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?

What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?

[chuck gelm]

Howdy:

 I am trying to use an old dual pentium-pro motherboard as a file
server for a local government supported student project.

 The system has dual 200 MHz Pentium-Pro processors.
I am currently attempting to enable SMP in a Slackware v9.1 distribution,
but I am having some difficulty.  Instead, I am hoping to find
a distribution with SMP already enabled.  Are there any?

 Please, may I have some explanation or discussion about the warning
from 'make [old]config about the PentiumPro and SMP:

'Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" architecture may not
work on all Pentium based boards.'

 IOW, will my attempt to enable SMP with this PPro system
probably fail or be very difficult?

Regards, Chuck


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RE: What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?

[Little, Chris]

I don't know what the warning is, but a recompile and install of your kernel
with SMP enabled should work fine.  The warning sounds as if the kernel that
you build may not necessarily work or advisably be used on other non-pro
systems (ie. III, IV, etc)

-----Original Message-----
From: chuck gelm [mailto:chuck@gelm.net]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:44 PM
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?


Howdy:

 I am trying to use an old dual pentium-pro motherboard as a file
server for a local government supported student project.

 The system has dual 200 MHz Pentium-Pro processors.
I am currently attempting to enable SMP in a Slackware v9.1 distribution,
but I am having some difficulty.  Instead, I am hoping to find
a distribution with SMP already enabled.  Are there any?

 Please, may I have some explanation or discussion about the warning
from 'make [old]config about the PentiumPro and SMP:

'Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" architecture may not
work on all Pentium based boards.'

 IOW, will my attempt to enable SMP with this PPro system
probably fail or be very difficult?

Regards, Chuck


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Re: What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?

[Owen Ford]

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On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 13:43 -0400, chuck gelm wrote:
> Howdy:
>  IOW, will my attempt to enable SMP with this PPro system
> probably fail or be very difficult?

The linux kernel handles the SMP bits and all modern distros that I know
of have all the necessary tools for SMP.  The only ones that might not
have that support would be some of the floppy distros but you can easily
compile a kernel with SMP on any modern distro.

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Owen Ford <oford@arghblech.com>

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Re: What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?

[chuck gelm]

Little, Chris wrote:

>I don't know what the warning is, but a recompile and install of your kernel
>with SMP enabled should work fine.  The warning sounds as if the kernel that
>you build may not necessarily work or advisably be used on other non-pro
>systems (ie. III, IV, etc)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: chuck gelm [mailto:chuck@gelm.net]
>Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:44 PM
>To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ?
>
>
>Howdy:
>
> I am trying to use an old dual pentium-pro motherboard as a file
>server for a local government supported student project.
>
> The system has dual 200 MHz Pentium-Pro processors.
>I am currently attempting to enable SMP in a Slackware v9.1 distribution,
>but I am having some difficulty.  Instead, I am hoping to find
>a distribution with SMP already enabled.  Are there any?
>
> Please, may I have some explanation or discussion about the warning
>from 'make [old]config about the PentiumPro and SMP:
>
>'Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro" architecture may not
>work on all Pentium based boards.'
>
> IOW, will my attempt to enable SMP with this PPro system
>probably fail or be very difficult?
>
>Regards, Chuck
>  
>
Howdy, Chris and Owen:

 I have twice re-compiled the kernel and yet
cat /proc/cpuinfo
displays only 'cpu0'.  :-(

(edit .config to enable SMP, make bzImage modules modules_install install)

 Elsewhere, someone suggested that I look to see if a
VRM (voltage regulator module) is installed on the motherboard.
I'll be returning to configure the system on Wednesday and I
will check to see if there seems to be any missing items.

Thanks, chuck


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