[ydl-gen] So - is multi-processor support broken?

Sterling Garwood slgarwood at charter.net
Thu Jun 5 09:29:24 MDT 2008


I am using stock YDL 6 .... maybe its a bad assumption on my part  
since I am basing it on only one penguin at boot time and the cpu  
monitor only shows time for cpu 0....
its the 32 bit standard kernel  from YDL.
This is a G4 ... maybe that's the difference (32 bit).

On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Rob Sanders wrote:

> Sterling,
>   Are you using the stock kernel with 2.6, or have you upgraded.  I
> hadn't heard about SMP
> not working for the PPC, and I've got YDL6 running with 2.6.25
> (forget which rc) on my dual
> G5 tower.
>
> Rob
>
> On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Sterling Garwood wrote:
>
>> I am trying out YDL 6 on an Apple PPC (MDD dual 1.25 Ghz) and the
>> Linux kernel never runs 2 processors - just one. I seem to recall
>> seeing notes about MP support for PPC being broken in current  
>> releases
>> of the kernel. True?
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