Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:41:30PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:50:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > But you never managed to get SMP working on it, right ?
>
> SMP works but I was having problems where it would crash after 3 or 4
> months of uptime in the software raid1 code. This was with 2.4 kernels
> though.. I have not tried a recent 2.6 kernel yet.
FYI, linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp version 2.6.15-8 works on my MTX
board.
kalmia:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 604ev
clock : 300MHz
revision : 1.0 (pvr 000a 0100)
bogomips : 297.98
processor : 1
cpu : 604ev
clock : 300MHz
revision : 1.0 (pvr 000a 0100)
bogomips : 297.98
total bogomips : 595.96
machine : PReP Dual MTX w/ Parallel Port
l2 cache : none
simms :
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