Re: debian ppc success!

1999-05-20 Thread Cort Dougan
The 4 processor rs6k smp I've been testing does quite well as it is. My theory is that we're loosing a lot of performance on the htab contention (if I can prove it, I'll create separate htabs per processor). If you isolate any performance bottlenecks with SMP please let meknow. } I don't want th

Re: debian ppc success!

1999-05-20 Thread Cort Dougan
I don't want to put them into 2.2 until they're nice and healthy in 2.3. As it is, I'm behind on my 2.2.x work since I've been getting 2.3.x working :) Keep in mind, the structure of the kernel changed a great deal from 2.0 -> 2.3 so things will have to be quite different. In fact, the bebox chan

Re: debian ppc success!

1999-05-20 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Tom Rini wrote: > Oh Lord. BeBox support in 2.2.x (more likely 2.3.x/2.4.0) would be neat, > and will happen, but is a ways off. First, he's using the 2.0.32 > bootdisks from 980610. Second, BeBoxen have been mostly coaxed into > booting UP under 2.2.x. Tho I think they're

Re: debian ppc success!

1999-05-20 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > > Hello people, > > > > Just a status report to indicate that I've successully got the > > debian distribution (ppc) up and running on my BeBox (2x133) > > using the 2.0.32 scsi kernel

Re: debian ppc success!

1999-05-20 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andrew Hughes wrote: > Hello people, > > Just a status report to indicate that I've successully got the > debian distribution (ppc) up and running on my BeBox (2x133) > using the 2.0.32 scsi kernel from the be-linux site. Boots over > the net, mounts

debian ppc success!

1999-05-19 Thread Andrew Hughes
Hello people, Just a status report to indicate that I've successully got the debian distribution (ppc) up and running on my BeBox (2x133) using the 2.0.32 scsi kernel from the be-linux site. Boots over the net, mounts root locally. I'm now looking to help out with t