Having booted into GRML on my Asus P2B-DS I had to notice that only one of two
processors are recognized. It seems to be due to lacking SMP support not
compiled into GRMLs i686 kernel:
grml 3.13-1-grml-486 #1 Debian 3.13.6-1+grml.1 (2014-03-10) i686 GNU/Linux
did not support the second processor while a similar kernel did:
Linux mint 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:08:14 UTC i686 i686
i686 GNU/Linux
Note that it can be very hard to work with this machine if only one of two
800Mhz processors is supported while it runs sufficiently fast with two.
Would there be any disadvantage in supporting SMP for such machines?