On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Miro Juri?i? wrote: > >>The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4 > >>SMP > >>kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such. > > > >Well, the power4 2.4.25 kernel is the SMP version, if i remember well. > >Since each build represented 1 hour on my box, i did make only one > > Well, if it is the SMP version, the image containing it still doesn't > boot my dual G5. However, I don't know if that's the kernel's fault or > not -- it's an OF error and I am guessing that it occurs near the end > of yaboot rather than early in the kernel. So, for all I know, the bug > could be in yaboot.
Mmm, what version of yaboot are you using ? There are definitively some point there. > >>The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel, > >>which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4 > >>systems? > > > >Yep, but represent a 20-40 or so performance hit on uniprocessor > >system, > >at least that is what benh claimed, see previous threads on this. > > It's not clear to me from this thread whether the non-SMP kernel is > supposed to work on MP machines. As far as the installer is concerned, Sure, but only with one kernel. > either the kernel on the installer image should be able to boot both > kinds of G5 machines, or there should be two G5 kernels. If I have an The 2.6.x packages have two power4 kernel, and are tested on Jens's G5 box, so .. Friendly, Sven Luther
