Re: Installing on a dual G5
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Miro Juri?i? wrote:
> >>The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4
> >>SMP
> >>kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such.
> >
> >Well, the power4 2.4.25 kernel is the SMP version, if i remember well.
> >Since each build represented 1 hour on my box, i did make only one
>
> Well, if it is the SMP version, the image containing it still doesn't
> boot my dual G5. However, I don't know if that's the kernel's fault or
> not -- it's an OF error and I am guessing that it occurs near the end
> of yaboot rather than early in the kernel. So, for all I know, the bug
> could be in yaboot.
Mmm, what version of yaboot are you using ? There are definitively some
point there.
> >>The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel,
> >>which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4
> >>systems?
> >
> >Yep, but represent a 20-40 or so performance hit on uniprocessor
> >system,
> >at least that is what benh claimed, see previous threads on this.
>
> It's not clear to me from this thread whether the non-SMP kernel is
> supposed to work on MP machines. As far as the installer is concerned,
Sure, but only with one kernel.
> either the kernel on the installer image should be able to boot both
> kinds of G5 machines, or there should be two G5 kernels. If I have an
The 2.6.x packages have two power4 kernel, and are tested on Jens's G5
box, so ..
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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