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

[Henry A. Leinhos]

Sterling, 

Which kernel are you running?  I recall that the PPC kernel needs to be 
compiled with SMP enabled, and that PPC distros (at least in the past) had 
to provide a separate SMP kernel.  What does uname -a  say? 

At the boot prompt, hit the <tab> key to see if there is an SMP kernel as an 
option. 

Regards,
Henry 

Sterling Garwood writes: 

> 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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