Re: Problems with SMP
Hello !
I´m running a 604/200 MP in a 7300 PowerMac and they work fine since kernel 2.4.6 or so.
Looks to me that you boot into Linux with BootX.
You have to use miboot or quik to boot a MP Old-World Mac to get both processors for Linux.
Bye,
Christoph
Rogerio Brito schrieb:
>
> Hi, All.
>
> Now, that I could get a 2.4 kernel compiled for my quite old
> PowerMac 9500/180MP, I would like to get SMP working. This
> machine is quite slow for a lot of tasks, including rendering
> web pages. So, getting the second CPU working would actually
> be a great boost of speed.
>
> I have compiled a SMP kernel, but these are the messages that
> I receive when the kernel is booting:
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> (...)
> PowerMac motherboard: PowerMac 9500/9600
> (...)
> Entering SMP Mode...
> Processor 1 is stuck.
> (...)
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> After this, /proc/cpuinfo only shows information about the
> first CPU.
>
> So, is this a known bug? Would the cause of this problem be
> that I am booting with BootX? Should I send more information
> to linux-kernel? Which information would be necessary?
>
> I think that I'm falling in love with the PowerPC architecture
> and if I get a bit more of speed, I'd love to help compiling
> packages from the Debian repository or to help with anything
> that I can to make Debian better.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information, Roger...
>
> P.S.: I'm attaching the complete dmesg output to give context to the
> excerpts above.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> dmesg.txtName: dmesg.txt
> Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
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