Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
06 Apr 2003 14:30:46 -0400


On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 07:23, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Congratulations rml!

No, congratulations to Zwane :)

> If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long
> way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the
> preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.

Indeed. Successfully booting and running a 32-way SMP+preempt machine
is a very good test.

> All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.

If you know of something specific, please share. I know the tty layer
needs work, but as far as I can tell, it is SMP issues that preemption
exposes... if any drivers in specific need work, let me know.

Robert Love

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