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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:06:05 -0800
From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: VM fixes [4/4]
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Again, older Alpha's do not.
> 
> If those old cpus really supported smp in linux,

The question isn't whether those CPUs support SMP; the question is whether
it's possible to build a kernel that supports both SMP boxes and older
CPUs.

-Mitch