Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32

["Tom Weustink" <t.weustink@home.nl>]

I will try the patch tonight on my supersparcs.

Thanks so far for the replies!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Keith M Wesolowski" <wesolows@foobazco.org>
Cc: "Tom Weustink" <t.weustink@home.nl>; <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32


> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:06:03PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >>> I expect that this patch will not qualify as stable, esp. given that
> 
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:35:35PM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> >> Understatement of the year.  Note abuse of prom_printf, #if 0, and
> >> randomly commented-out lines.  If someone sent me this patch as
> >> anything other than a curiosity item or cautionary example, I'd K-line
> >> him.  YHBW.
> >> OTOH, if someone wants to clean it up and get it current, that might
> >> be useful.  I think joshk may have a slightly improved version he was
> >> using for a while.  Perhaps he can comment here.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:42:30PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Thanks for the sterner warning. I've got work to do here, but I'm only
> > about 36 hours out from OLS and am still trying to catch up with work
> > and the rest of email.
> 
> I just rediffed the smp patch by brute force vs. 2.6.8-rc2. I'll spin
> it up on 3x hypersparc if it turns out the box is actually functional
> and see where it explodes sometime in the next 72 hours.
> 
> 
> -- wli
>