How to detect SMP-capable machines?

[Oliver Fromme]

Colin Percival <colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
 > 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.

I'm aware that -current kernels are supposed to support SMP
and UP without change, but we cannot use -current.  We have
to use -stable.  So that's not an option, I'm afraid.

I have now built an installation CD which uses the exit code
of mptable to decide whether to install an SMP or UP kernel.
It _seems_ to work on those machines on which I've tested it
so far.  Can somebody confirm that a -stable SMP kernel will
boot and run on all hardware on which mptable returns 0?

Regards
   Oliver

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