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Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture



On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 22:26 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 04:19 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:53:58PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> >> On 08/28/2013 11:35 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> >>> Looks reasonable. But please send further changes to remove the 
> >>> non-smp kernels.
> >> I can do that. Do you have some background on this request for me? 
> >> Is it policy that you only want to gave SMP-kernels?
> > 
> > We like to lower the image count.  As long as there are no pressing 
> > needs, we like to only have one kernel variant.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > Are there any UP machines since PA-8800?
> 
> After the request to reduce the kernels to e.g. SMP-only, my thought was
> to provide only 32bit-UP and 64bit SMP kernels.
> To be sure I asked on the parisc mailing list. The whole thread can be read here:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/5283
> 
> Summary:
> - yes, there exists quite some 32bit-only parisc SMP machines.
> - the J5600 is SMP capable in both 32bit and 64bit mode, but currently it
>   only boots Linux with a 32bit SMP kernel and crashes with a 64bit SMP kernel.
>   We are working on resolving this...
[...]

Looks like you fixed this one:

commit 54e181e073fc1415e41917d725ebdbd7de956455
Author: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Date:   Sat Oct 26 23:19:25 2013 +0200

    parisc: Do not crash 64bit SMP kernels on machines with >= 4GB RAM

Can you send a new config patch?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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