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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: 06 Apr 2003 14:30:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049653846.753.156.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com>

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 07:23, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Congratulations rml!

No, congratulations to Zwane :)

> If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long
> way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the
> preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.

Indeed.  Successfully booting and running a 32-way SMP+preempt machine
is a very good test.

> All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.

If you know of something specific, please share.  I know the tty layer
needs work, but as far as I can tell, it is SMP issues that preemption
exposes... if any drivers in specific need work, let me know.

	Robert Love


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-06 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-06 10:48 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 11:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 11:25   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 18:30   ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-04-06 21:46     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 21:50       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 22:10         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 22:03       ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 22:07         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 23:19           ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 18:28 ` Robert Love
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-06 19:33 Chuck Ebbert

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