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Fabien Wernli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:30:11PM -0700, Karl Misselt wrote:
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>>installation notes; Does 4.1 support SMP on dual core Intels? I see
>>AMDs specifically mentioned and I find the following on the RHEL
>>site for "RHEL 4 update 2"
>>New Features included in the update include:
>> - Intel dual core support
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> Take this as a rule:
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> If it's not in RHELX.X, it won't be in SLX.X (unless specified explicitly)
> If it's in RHELX.X it will be in SLX.X (unless not OSS licence)
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> Specifically in your case, if it's in RHELX.X, it won't be in RHELX.(X-1) ;)
Well, I'm not sure now what the new feature in Update 2 vis the Intel
dual cores will be. I've booted the SL4.1 SMP kernel succesfully with
acpi=off on the kernel line. The systems seems to properly recognize
2 CPUS. Maybe hyperthreading support? In any case, you can run dual
core Intels on SL4.1!
-Karl
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