Re: kernel without smp
On 11/22/06 03:28:25AM +0100, sigi wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:23:36PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > No affect in that both CPUs are always detected or just that the box still
> > locks up?
>
> If I remember right, the nosmp-option produced a kernel-panic during
> boot-time, and maxcpus=1 froze the keyboard while trying to get my IP
> with ifup.
>
> > Although either way your only real option is to compile a custom
> > kernel for UP.
>
> I tried this yesterday, but dpkg didn't install my custom kernel... I
> don't know, what the problem was - I tried the 'official' debian way,
> and only disabled smp-support from the debian-kernelimage config-file.
> But dpkg could not install it....
>
You did use make-kpkg to build it first, right?
> > Sounds like the rt2xxx developers need to get their act
> > together and fix their locking problems, things will only get worse as more
> > and more dual-core notebooks are released.
>
> Possibly I should write a new post into their forum, that they think
> about this in the future?!?
>
AFAIK they've known about it for a long time, it's been an issue for as
long as I've had my rt2500 card. But it can't hurt to remind them.
Jim.
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