How to detect SMP-capable machines?

[Colin Percival]

At 00:46 05/11/2003 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>Now the question:  What's the best way to determine an
>SMP-capable system, i.e. a system which is able to run
>an SMP kernel?

   Install 5.1-CURRENT (or at least boot a 5.1-CURRENT filesystem), which 
(I believe) now supports both UP and SMP in the GENERIC kernel, due to 
recent changes by jhb.

Colin Percival