linux-pmac-stable SMP issues

[Tony Mantler]

At 5:38 AM -0500 10/17/2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>It might not work as you want for dual booting, but you might want to
>>try OF booting with quik. It's rather manual, but it may bring up your
>>second processor...
>
>Yup, try miBoot or quik. The problem here is that new versions of MacOS
>have a small SMP nanokernel that is taking over the second CPU before
>BootX can react.

Ah, that would appear to be it. I booted with an 8.1 CD + BootX and I get
the full twin-penguins and everything. Spiff.

I would think it should be possible to have BootX hijack the second CPU in
a way that would make it un-stuck-able for when linux starts. I'd do this
myself but BootX doesn't build in MPW and I don't have codewarrior.

As much as I hate codewarrior, anyone care to make a donation? :)


merida:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
get_cpuinfo(): ran out of cpu nodes.
processor	: 0
cpu		: 604e
clock		: 200MHz
revision	: 2.2
bogomips	: 398.95

processor	: 1
cpu		: 604e
clock		: 200MHz
revision	: 2.2
bogomips	: 398.95

total bogomips	: 797.90
zero pages	: total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/282 (0%)
machine		: Power Macintosh
motherboard	: AAPL,9500 MacRISC
L2 cache	: 512K unified
memory		: 64MB
pmac-generation	: OldWorld
get_cpuinfo(): ran out of cpu nodes.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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