Dual G3's in Umax S900?

Holger Bettag hobold at Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE
Thu May 2 23:11:51 EST 2002


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:


> No. Doing SMP with G3s is a terrible nightmare as those CPUs don't
> have the necessary coherency protocols.
>
Is MEI not enough for Linux? Instruction cache coherency problems? Or is it
because of the rudimentary implementation of tlbie/tlbia? Just curious.

  Holger


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