On Jun 24, 2004, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 13:03 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2004, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > SMP modules are different from the non-SMP ones, but that's not a
> > problem as you can install kernel-smp in parallel with your main kernel
> > package. The i586 vs i686 part is the hard one.
>
> Not hard at all. Just add i586 to the kernel version number
> somewhere, and it will be a different pathname just like smp.
Yes, but that's ugly to look at :-)
So what? smp is ugly too, but it's there because it's useful. It
fixes a real problem, and it doesn't hurt much, so...
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