Re: Wierd /proc/cpuinfo with 2.4.11-pre4

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>]

"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
> 
> >> Wow!  That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
> >> additional _7_ CPUs!
> 
> Sorry. Mea culpa
> 
> --- setup.c.old Fri Oct  5 14:20:29 2001
> +++ setup.c     Fri Oct  5 14:28:51 2001
> @@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
>          * WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
>          * page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
>          */
> -       for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
> +       for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
>         /* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
>                 int fpu_exception;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> 
> M.
> 
> PS. I just tested this since my last post. It seems to work.

Doesn't build here...

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/share/src/linux-2.4.11-pre4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=i686    -c -o setup.o setup.c
setup.c: In function `get_cpuinfo':
setup.c:2423: `clustered_apic_mode' undeclared (first use in this function)
setup.c:2423: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
setup.c:2423: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [setup.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/share/src/linux-2.4.11-pre4/arch/i386/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2

--alessandro

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