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

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Monday 09 June 2008 09:04:01 pm Sterling Garwood wrote:
> I'll check it when I get a chance ... my guess is that YDL isn't an
> SMP kernel ...
> the YDL docs don't say one way or the other...
> AFAIK there is no SMP kernel in the distro ... there is a 64 bit one ...

 The kernel in YDL 6 definitely has SMP enabled. In the past, like most 
distros, we used to include SMP and non SMP kernels. Now, like pretty much 
all distros, we provide only one kernel with SMP enabled.

Cheers,

Chris


> On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
> > 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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