From: Peter Bergner <bergner@borg.umn.edu>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Boot log for Linux PPC64 on POWER3 hardware
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:34:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010223153447.A537283@brule.borg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A95AB71.FCECB41F@us.ibm.com> <20010223001402.A19464@cadcamlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010223001402.A19464@cadcamlab.org>
Peter Samuelson wrote:
: Impressive. One question, though --
:
: > starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,POWER3@1...ok
: > starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,POWER3@2...ok
: > starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,POWER3@3...ok
:
: You have 4 CPUs?
:
: > OpenPIC Version 1.2 (8 CPUs and 32 IRQ sources) at e000000001002000
: > OpenPIC timer frequency is 0 MHz
:
: ...or is it 8 CPUs?
:
: > swamsauger:~ # uname -a
: > Linux swamsauger 2.4.0-tg11 #188 Thu Feb 22 19:55:45 CST 2001 ppc64 unknown
: > swamsauger:~ #
: > swamsauger:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
: > processor : 0
:
: ...or just one CPU?
Olaf pretty much answered all your questions. Yes we are running a
non-SMP kernel at the moment, but even non-SMP kernels need to place
an SMP's unused processors in a spin loop so they don't play havoc
with the system.
Peter
--
Peter Bergner
SLIC Optimizing Translator Development / Linux PPC64 Kernel Development
IBM Rochester, MN
bergner@us.ibm.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-23 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-23 0:14 [ANNOUNCE] Boot log for Linux PPC64 on POWER3 hardware Peter Bergner
2001-02-23 6:14 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-23 9:59 ` Olaf Hering
2001-02-23 21:34 ` Peter Bergner [this message]
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