From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263050AbTDFSTq (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:19:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263051AbTDFSTq (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:19:46 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:42759 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263050AbTDFSTp (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:19:45 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ From: Robert Love To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo , Linux Kernel , Martin Bligh In-Reply-To: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com> References: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1049653846.753.156.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 (1.2.3-1) Date: 06 Apr 2003 14:30:46 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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