On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:09:08PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > > On Thu, 04 May 2006 23:41:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:52:49AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > > >> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > >> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > >> > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > >> > > wrote: > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the > > >> > > > > rest should > > >> > > > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the > > >> > > > > upcoming > > >> > > > > 2.6.17, right ? > > >> > > > > > >> > > > I don't remember when he fixed it precisely but I think 2.6.16 got > > >> > > > it > > >> > > > yes. > > >> > > > > >> > > Do you know if there are SMP PReP machines around ? I think i will > > >> > > do only a > > >> > > UP -prep flavour. > > >> > > > >> > There were at least dual 604 PreP boards. > > >> > > >> The IBM 7043-240 is a dual-cpu system, I think it's PReP? > > > > > > Thanks for the info. > > > > > > Friendly, > > > > > > Sven Luther > > > > SMP never worked under Linux on those machines because the AIX boot > > sequence to enable it was never successfully reverse-engineered. > > Ah, ok, then it makes no sense to build a special kernel for those, until more > information is found about the above.
I have a Motorola MTX PreP system with dual 604e's that I can test this on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
