kernel 2.4 SMP on quad PPC

[Kaoru Fukui]

From: eraineri at axiom-tx.com
To: linuxppc-dev at lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: kernel 2.4 SMP on quad PPC
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:50:19 -0600

>
> Hello,
> I have searched the arhives and didn't seem to find what I'm looking
> for.  I currently am in the process of porting linux to a custom PPC
> Quad board.  I downloaded a 2.5 kernel  from FSMlabs in December and
> have had success getting 2 processors to come up.  However, I could not
> get 3 or 4.  I am considering going to the 2.4 latest kernel on the
> FSMlabs bitkeeper site.  I'm wondering if the version of the 2.5 kernel
> I downloaded works with more then duals and also if I should instead
> download the 2.4 kernel and us it?  I know that eventually I am going to
> have to go to 2.4 but I would like to show some success before
> abandoning the 2.5 version I've worked so hard to get.  If I in the
> incorrect mailing list I apologize.  I'm fairly new to the Linux kernel
> development world!
>
> Thanks for all the help
> Eddy
>
Yesterday it was fixed just code for multicpu over 2 in smp.c and irq.c.
Try again linuxppc_2_3.

but I don't have multicpu over 2,so i cannot check it.

Kaoru


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