Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:42:12AM -0700, Anton Blanchard wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> > even a small start would be helping me get better RS/6000 support in
> > ybin, since the boot-floppies completely rely on ybin to make
> > yaboot systems bootable.
>
> I have debian running on a number of RS6000s. Ignoring the install,
> all that is required (on POWER3 machines) is to fix libc to understand
> the large cacheline size. At the moment I am unpacking the deb, binary
> editing it and repacking it (a trick paulus showed me). Longer term
> Benh has patches to export the cacheline size from the kernel to libc
> which will fix the problem.
I'll be using an SMP 604 box. (Fortunately?)
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