From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tom Weustink" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:42:06 +0000 Subject: Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32 Message-Id: <002701c47526$9600d320$3c01a8c0@cascade> List-Id: References: <001301c474db$af707860$3c01a8c0@cascade> In-Reply-To: <001301c474db$af707860$3c01a8c0@cascade> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org I will try the patch tonight on my supersparcs. Thanks so far for the replies! ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Lee Irwin III" To: "Keith M Wesolowski" Cc: "Tom Weustink" ; 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 >