Re: HEADS UP: GENERIC switched to MP by default

Julian Djamil Fagir <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <20120508192534.7aacad1e@adolfputzen>
Hi,

> > I've run into that for the second time. There's no documentation about
> > what the GENERIC.UP and what the normal GENERIC kernel makes up, when you
> > should use which one.
> > For a first-time-installer, you just end up and think "hu? What's .UP?".
> 
> You could try something like this:
> 
> Index: msg.md.en
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/sparc64/msg.md.en,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -u -p -r1.11 msg.md.en
> --- msg.md.en	4 Nov 2011 11:27:05 -0000	1.11
> +++ msg.md.en	7 May 2012 19:42:34 -0000
> @@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ message doofwboot
>  }
>  
>  message set_kernel_1
> -{Kernel (GENERIC)}
> +{SMP aware kernel}
>  message set_kernel_2
> -{Kernel (GENERIC.UP)}
> +{Uniprocessor only kernel}
> 
> 
> If it doesn't look awful, please translate and commit ;-)
I can't help with the Polish, Spanish or French translation. Plus, should you
add that the SMP kernel is recommended for installation?

Regards, Julian
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