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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:13:58 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] SMP alternatives
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:36:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>Actual UP machines are going to go away - even ARM is going SMP, and
>>in the PC space, we'll have multi-core laptops probably being the
>>rule rather than the exception in a couple of years.
> 
> CPUs in embedded the space could outnumber desktops & servers greatly
> (cell phones, access pointers, routers, media players, etc).  Most of
> these will be UP for some time.

It's unlikely, though, that you'd have a need to run an SMP-compiled 
kernel on these devices.

	-hpa
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