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