From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:11:41 +0000 Subject: Re: SMP support in 2.6.x kernel for sparc32 Message-Id: <20040729001141.GJ2334@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, 28 Jul 2004 16:53:29 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > | 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. On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:05:27AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Well, hypersparc has a whole extra set of problems. Unless you use an > embedded root it's got a ~97% chance of not running init. Only way to > run a proper userspace on hypersparcs with 2.6.x is to boot into > busybox, nfsmount a system image and then repeatedly try to run things > until you get lucky with DMA... Yes, I will need to fix the hypersparc DMA issue as well. Nothing wrong with that, it needs fixing anyway. Actually my system is diskless anyway, so I will in all probability get whatever result you're expecting from nfsroot by coincidence anyway. If you've got fixes already feel free to send them my way. Thanks. -- wli