Re: XEON SMP KERNEL 2.4.20 tree
Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:21:27AM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote:
>
> >
> > I have 3 dual processor IBM Netfinity Servers with the XEON
> P3 (1Mb Cache).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Does anyone know of any SMP problems with the 2.4.20 kernel ?
> >
> > If not, who should I report this too and what information should I
> > provide them ?
>
> Which compiler did you use? GCC 2.95.4 is known to create buggy SMP
> kernels, at least it did in my experience. If you used that
> one, you may
> want to try using 3.x.
>
But note that when using gcc-3.2, you have to patch the kernel sources to
compile. There was a patch posted somewhere, but I just don't have the
googlink handy...
Thomas
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