Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:20:25 +0100 (BST) | From | Vivek Dasmohapatra <> | Subject | Re: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP. |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote:
> My question is why the result of 'uname -r' is not "2.4.2-2smp" , but > "2.4.2-2"
This is just the label as defined by the entries in the top-level Makefile, eg:
VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 3 EXTRAVERSION = -ac5
> Whether I forgot to do something?
You can edit the extraversion value if you want to label your smp kernels differently, but you don't have to.
You'll probably find you _have_ compiled an SMP kernel - see what /proc/cpuinfo says, for example.
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