From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:04:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:04:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.mountain.net ([198.77.1.35]:21509 "EHLO riker.mountain.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:04:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3A77C6E7.606DDA67@mountain.net> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:03:51 -0500 From: Tom Leete X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i486) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB,en,fr,es,it,de,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Ford CC: Stephen Frost , LKML Subject: Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined) In-Reply-To: <3A777E1A.8F124207@linux.com> <20010130220148.Y26953@ns> <3A77966E.444B1160@linux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Ford wrote: > > Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP? > > > > -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 -- The Daemons lurk and are dumb. -- Emerson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/