From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Gerards Subject: Re: SMP on the MacBook Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:25:11 +0200 Message-ID: <873bc5atg8.fsf@xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Ian Pratt's message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:10:19 +0100") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Marco Gerards List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org "Ian Pratt" writes: >> > Marco, >> > Have you tried -unstable? Some potentially relevant files have been >> > updated. >> >> Yes, unstable has the same problem. Would you encourage development >> in unstable or testing? > > I'd go for -unstable. In reality, the stability is usually rather good. Sure. >> > Also, exactly which version of Linux boots OK? Does 2.6.16 e.g. from > the >> > DemoCD? >> >> I have not tested the DemoCD because it still contains an unpatched >> GRUB. Because of that it doesn't work with the Intel Mac. >> >> But I have tried linux 2.6.16 (self compiled), which works perfectly. > > I might be worth trying the native kernel from the demo cd just to check > it's not a kernel config issue, but I admit it's a bit of a long shot. The problem is in Xen itself, if that is what you mean. I was a bit tired yesterday evening and for some reason I was thinking you meant a normal linux kernel. :) > Also, it might be good to test a similarly configed native 2.6.15/14/12 > to see if any of them fail in the same way as Xen -- that would give us > a big clue. I have been trying this, back to Linux 2.6.8. I will play a bit more with this, although it really looks like this being an ACPI related issue, for some reason ACPI is being able to wakeup the second core properly. -- Marco