From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:53:29 +0000 Subject: Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32 Message-Id: <20040728235329.GE2334@holomorphy.com> 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 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