From: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
To: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:06:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a44ae5cd1001061006i63579096me4d598b06cc358f9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100106185913.39003329@neptune.home>
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bruno Prémont
<bonbons@linux-vserver.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 January 2010 Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For a long time I have gotten two pictures of Tux showing up when I
>> include the Tux display option in my custom kernel builds. I don't
>> know how many kernel revisions ago it was when I started noticing
>> this. It seems like it might have been early in the 2.6 series
>> kernels.
>
> Unless your system has exactly one CPU without hyperthreading and with
> exactly one core this is the correct bahavior, one tux per logical CPU.
>
> If you just want a single tux you can run your kernel on a system with
> only one logical CPU, boot it with maxcpus=1 or rebuild it with
> CONFIG_SMP=n... though in those case you will not be able to benefit
> from all of your CPU's resources..
>
> Bruno
Oh! Well, that explains it. That is truly weird functionality. Is
Tux a de facto
CPU presence indicator? It doesn't make any sense to me, if so.
Miles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-06 17:16 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images displayed Miles Lane
2010-01-06 17:37 ` 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images James Simmons
2010-01-06 17:42 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-06 17:48 ` James Simmons
2010-01-06 18:08 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-06 17:59 ` Bruno Prémont
2010-01-06 18:06 ` Miles Lane [this message]
2010-01-06 18:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-06 18:10 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-06 18:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-06 18:35 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-09 10:34 ` Pavel Machek
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