Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC switched to MP by default

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:16:19PM +0200, Julian Djamil Fagir wrote:
> I've run into that for the second time. There's no documentation about what
> the GENERIC.UP and what the normal GENERIC kernel makes up, when you should
> use which one.
> For a first-time-installer, you just end up and think "hu? What's .UP?".

You could try something like this:

Index: msg.md.en
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/sparc64/msg.md.en,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.11 msg.md.en
--- msg.md.en   4 Nov 2011 11:27:05 -0000       1.11
+++ msg.md.en   7 May 2012 19:42:34 -0000
@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ message doofwboot
 }
 
 message set_kernel_1
-{Kernel (GENERIC)}
+{SMP aware kernel}
 message set_kernel_2
-{Kernel (GENERIC.UP)}
+{Uniprocessor only kernel}


If it doesn't look awful, please translate and commit ;-)

Martin