From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:45:35 -0400 Received: from elin.scali.no ([195.139.250.10]:32264 "EHLO elin.scali.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:45:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3B6A65BF.2DFDEA6C@scali.no> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:50:07 +0200 From: Steffen Persvold X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john slee CC: Alan Cox , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: booting SMP P6 kernel on P4 hangs. In-Reply-To: <20010803000043.F1183@higherplane.net> 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 john slee wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:30:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I think just disable SMP in that case. There are currently no SMP Pentium IV > > boxes and perhaps Intel will have fixed it by the time SMP Pentium IV exists > > yes there are, they may not be available to the general public yet > however: > > http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1472&p=5 > Hmm, we have two dual Pentium IV systems here in our lab, and they are available to the public (atleast SuperMicro & Tyan makes them). This is however Pentium IV Xeon chips (i.e not plain Pentium IV) and they use the Intel 860 chipset. I've not seen any problems yet with these system (using RedHat 7.1 with 2.4.3-12smp kernel). Regards, -- Steffen Persvold Systems Engineer Email : mailto:sp@scali.no Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Tlf : (+47) 22 62 89 50 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (+47) 22 62 89 51 N-0621 Oslo, Norway