From: Adrian Bunk After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this place. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/00-INDEX | 2 -- Documentation/smp.txt | 22 ---------------------- 2 files changed, 24 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/00-INDEX~remove-documentation-smptxt Documentation/00-INDEX --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX~remove-documentation-smptxt +++ a/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -367,8 +367,6 @@ sharedsubtree.txt - a description of shared subtrees for namespaces. smart-config.txt - description of the Smart Config makefile feature. -smp.txt - - a few notes on symmetric multi-processing. sony-laptop.txt - Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme. sonypi.txt diff -puN Documentation/smp.txt~remove-documentation-smptxt /dev/null --- a/Documentation/smp.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -To set up SMP - -Configure the kernel and answer Y to CONFIG_SMP. - -If you are using LILO, it is handy to have both SMP and non-SMP -kernel images on hand. Edit /etc/lilo.conf to create an entry -for another kernel image called "linux-smp" or something. - -The next time you compile the kernel, when running a SMP kernel, -edit linux/Makefile and change "MAKE=make" to "MAKE=make -jN" -(where N = number of CPU + 1, or if you have tons of memory/swap - you can just use "-j" without a number). Feel free to experiment -with this one. - -Of course you should time how long each build takes :-) -Example: - make config - time -v sh -c 'make clean install modules modules_install' - -If you are using some Compaq MP compliant machines you will need to set -the operating system in the BIOS settings to "Unixware" - don't ask me -why Compaqs don't work otherwise. _