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, 17 Apr 2002 13:32:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:32:30 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:33102 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:32:26 -0400 To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5.8] support for NCR voyager (3/4/5xxx series) In-Reply-To: <200204161601.g3GG1nP03345@localhost.localdomain> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 17 Apr 2002 11:25:14 -0600 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley writes: > This patch adds SMP (and UP) support for voyager which is an (up to 32 way) > SMP microchannel non-PC architecture. > > The patch is in two parts: The i386 sub-architecture split is > separated from the addition of the voyager components > > http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/arch-split-2.5.8.diff (269k) > http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/voyager-2.5.8.diff (150k) > > (The split diff is pretty huge because it's actually moving files about). You > must apply the split diff before applying the voyager one. > > These two patches are also available as separate bitkeeper trees: > > http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/voyager-2.5 > http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/arch-split-2.5 Currently you place the voyager information in the APM table, which is problematic for the goal of being able to have a kernel that will support everything, and it is a little confusing. There is still plenty of room for the voyager table, elsewhere so I don't think that is needed. Please check out include/asm-i386/boot_param.h for an enumeration of where we actually put the variables. Since it hasn't made it into the kernel yet either get out of the linux-kernel mailing list or at: ftp://download.lnxi.com/pub/src/linux-kernel-patches/boot/linux-2.5.8.boot.diff Eric