From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3912C0F0.3B3CC7A7@wibble.net> Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 22:39:12 +1000 From: Steven Hanley MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sacha Varma , Linux PPC Dev Subject: Re: SMP/DayStar x4 References: <39128EF2.9E503704@ssl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > only 2 processors are available. > > Can anyone set me straight? very wrong, smp even back when it was added in 1.3.something could handle more than two AFAIR, it was just very inefficient then. it is now a lot more efficient and scales a lot better. Dave Miller was using it on a 14 cpu ultra sparc pre 2.2.0 release, as for ppc, it works on 4 way ppc, I have no idea how it will work on your specific hardware though. See You Steve -- sjh@wibble.net http://wibble.net/~sjh/ Look Up In The Sky Is it a bird? No Is it a plane? No Is it a small blue banana? YES ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/