[CentOS] Kernel panic on Dell 1850

Wed May 11 16:59:24 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:42 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On May 11, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Tru Huynh wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:00:51PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So there is no kernel-smp.ia32e (none also on PNAELV)
> >>
> >> Weird.  Any idea why the UP processor reports SMP then?
> >
> > because the ia32e kernel is already SMP :P
> >
> > CONFIG_SMP=y in the kernel-2.4.21-ia32e.config
> > (cf /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL/configs from 
> > kernel-source-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL)
> >
> > You shouldn't need the kernel-smp on EM64T.
> 
> Someone needs to beat the Red Hat kernel packager with a clue stick.
> 
> Thanks for your help, the new kernel works fine.  :)
> 
> --

You are not alone ... I screwed up my kernel too. {And I build this
stuff :)}

Their logic (silly as it is) is that there is no such thing as a non-SMP
kernel for ia32e (since it has hyperthreading) ... SO ... no need for an
ia32e SMP and non-SMP kernel.  So, for a reason that I am not possibly
able to understand, they decided that the ia32e kernel would be compiled
with SMP and not be labeled as SMP.

go figure :)
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