On 6/6/07, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> There are three flavors of GENERIC from the MP point of view:
>
>   GENERIC: runs fine on dual-processor machines, but only uses 1
>   processor
>
>   GENERIC.MP: uses MPBIOS to find/start additional processors.
>   Typically useful for pretty old machines
>
>   GENERIC.MPACPI: uses ACPI for additional processors.  Typically useful
>   for moderate to new machines
>
>
> If you have a machine that can take 2 processors but only has 1, you
> might as well use just GENERIC.

Thanks for the info Greg, Joseph.

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