From: Tom Leete <tleete@mountain.net>
To: David Ford <david@linux.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:03:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A77C6E7.606DDA67@mountain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A777E1A.8F124207@linux.com> <20010130220148.Y26953@ns> <3A77966E.444B1160@linux.com>
David Ford wrote:
>
> Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP?
>
> </idle questions>
>
> -d
>
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > * David Ford (david@linux.com) wrote:
> > > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP
> > > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more
> > > time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at
> > > http://stuph.org/smp-config
> >
> > They're trying to compile SMP for Athlon/K7 (CONFIG_MK7=y).
>
It's not an incompatibility with the k7 chip, just bad code in
include/asm-i386/string.h. in_interrupt() cannot be called from there.
I have posted a patch here many times since last May. Most recent was
Saturday.
Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-31 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 2:53 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined) David Ford
2001-01-31 3:01 ` Stephen Frost
2001-01-31 4:37 ` David Ford
2001-01-31 7:16 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31 8:03 ` Tom Leete [this message]
2001-01-31 10:26 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31 10:48 ` Tom Leete
2001-01-31 11:10 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31 23:01 ` Olaf Titz
2001-01-31 23:38 ` David Lang
2001-02-01 1:11 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-01 1:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-02 15:12 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-31 13:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 7:52 ` Tom Leete
2001-02-01 8:12 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01 13:39 ` Tom Leete
2001-02-01 10:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 13:53 ` Tom Leete
2001-01-31 23:26 ` David Lang
2001-02-01 15:04 ` Jeff Garzik
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