From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Martin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: 06 Apr 2003 14:30:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049653846.753.156.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com>
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 07:23, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Congratulations rml!
No, congratulations to Zwane :)
> If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long
> way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the
> preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.
Indeed. Successfully booting and running a 32-way SMP+preempt machine
is a very good test.
> All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.
If you know of something specific, please share. I know the tty layer
needs work, but as far as I can tell, it is SMP issues that preemption
exposes... if any drivers in specific need work, let me know.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-06 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-06 10:48 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 11:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 11:25 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 18:30 ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-04-06 21:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 21:50 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 22:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 22:03 ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 22:07 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 23:19 ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 18:28 ` Robert Love
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2003-04-06 19:33 Chuck Ebbert
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