[ale] SMP support for CentOS 4.0 i386

Denny Chambers dchambers at bugfixer.net
Thu Mar 24 14:37:02 EST 2005


CentOS is compiled from RHEL source. That source is still GPL. I can't 
see how RH can enforce something like that on the license. It could be 
possible that Redhat has changed the kernel code in such a way, to only 
use at most twoCPUs, but if that were the case nothing would prevent you 
from changing it back. I know the guys over at http://www.openfiler.org 
use CentOS as there base distribution for the OpenFiler project, you may 
want to ask those guys this question, they would probably know.

Denny

Yu, Jerry wrote:

> anybody know how many CPU can CentOS 4.0 support?    Its redhat 
> counterpart "RHEL 4.0 ES" supports only 2. I'd assume it is 
> restriction of RHEL license  instead of 'feature lock' in the kernel, 
> right?
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