Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

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