Good Hello,

This is a set of essential kernel packages with support for SMP (up to 16
processors), support for SMT (Hyperthreading), and optimizations for
dual-core CPUs.

As with the other 2.6.x kernels in this Slackware release, an alsa-driver
package is not provided. You may leave the alsa-driver package that was built
for 2.4.x in place in order to have /usr/include/sound headers, OR you may
install the kernel-headers-smp package here which includes ALSA
/usr/include/alsa headers from the kernel. The kernel-modules-smp provides the
ALSA modules that for 2.4 are provided by the alsa driver package.

There, that should cut down on the "where are is the alsa-driver" inquires.
I'll admit it's a bit confusing when a package disappears, but it's because
this functionality was merged into the standard kernel. :-)

The performance offered by these kernels and modules should be close to
optimal for any i686+ multiprocessor/core system. Further tweaking should not
be helpful for most uses, but (as always) feel free to play with the options.

Source packages are not provided. Instead, use the uniprocessor kernel-source
package, and copy the config-generic-smp-* over the /usr/src/linux-*/.config.
After that, run "make oldconfig".

This will provide the source tree used to build the kernel-generic-smp kernel.

Have fun!

-P.