Re: [9fans] vga vesa works on mp pc

2009-12-08 Thread geoff
As far as I can tell, yes, that's all it took. The old code had been turning off the old 8259 interrupt controllers used by uniprocessors but didn't disable the lapic on mp systems. --- Begin Message --- On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:05 PM, wrote: > I've just pushed out a small change to /sys/src/9/p

Re: [9fans] vga vesa works on mp pc

2009-12-08 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:05 PM, wrote: > I've just pushed out a small change to /sys/src/9/pc/realmode.c that > allows monitor=vesa to work on multiprocessor pcs without *nomp being > defined in plan9.ini (i.e., you can use all available processors [or > cores] and still use vesa mode).  I've als

Re: [9fans] vga vesa works on mp pc

2009-12-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Dec 8 19:07:25 EST 2009, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > I've just pushed out a small change to /sys/src/9/pc/realmode.c that > allows monitor=vesa to work on multiprocessor pcs without *nomp being > defined in plan9.ini (i.e., you can use all available processors [or > cores] and still

[9fans] vga vesa works on mp pc

2009-12-08 Thread geoff
I've just pushed out a small change to /sys/src/9/pc/realmode.c that allows monitor=vesa to work on multiprocessor pcs without *nomp being defined in plan9.ini (i.e., you can use all available processors [or cores] and still use vesa mode). I've also pushed out new kernels, so the distribution bui