Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

[Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>]

On May 24, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:00:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:09:08PM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > > On Thu, 04 May 2006 23:41:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:52:49AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:12:56PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and 
> > > > > > > > > the rest should
> > > > > > > > > go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the 
> > > > > > > > > upcoming
> > > > > > > > > 2.6.17, right ?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I don't remember when he fixed it precisely but I think 2.6.16 
> > > > > > > > got it
> > > > > > > > yes.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Do you know if there are SMP PReP machines around ? I think i 
> > > > > > > will do only a
> > > > > > > UP -prep flavour.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There were at least dual 604 PreP boards.
> > > > >
> > > > > The IBM 7043-240 is a dual-cpu system, I think it's PReP?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the info.
> > > >
> > > > Friendly,
> > > >
> > > > Sven Luther
> > >
> > > SMP never worked under Linux on those machines because the AIX boot
> > > sequence to enable it was never successfully reverse-engineered.
> >
> > Ah, ok, then it makes no sense to build a special kernel for those, 
> > until more
> > information is found about the above.
>
> I have a Motorola MTX PreP system with dual 604e's that I can test this
> on.

I was referring to the IBM 7043. No idea how it applies to the MTX.