| 1 |
Hello Matthew |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:32:17AM +0000, Matthew Polashek wrote: |
| 4 |
> I'm interested in making my Powerbook G4 1.5 17" a dual boot Gentoo |
| 5 |
|
| 6 |
Which model exactly? |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
> Also, I'd like to use a kernel with the Ingo Molnar realtime |
| 9 |
> preemption patch. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
I don't know that specific patch, but preemption on PowerPC isn't what |
| 12 |
you actually want. It causes programs to crash because of a corrupted |
| 13 |
cache. It used to work when one enabled SMP, but I'm not sure wether |
| 14 |
this is still the case. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
Greets, |
| 17 |
Michael |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
-- |
| 20 |
Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ |
| 21 |
In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. |
| 22 |
Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? |
| 23 |
(By hasku@××××××××.fi, Hasse Skrifvars) |
Archives