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On 4/4/06, Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello Matthew |
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> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:32:17AM +0000, Matthew Polashek wrote: |
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> > I'm interested in making my Powerbook G4 1.5 17" a dual boot Gentoo |
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> Which model exactly? |
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> > Also, I'd like to use a kernel with the Ingo Molnar realtime |
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> > preemption patch. |
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> I don't know that specific patch, but preemption on PowerPC isn't what |
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> you actually want. It causes programs to crash because of a corrupted |
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> cache. It used to work when one enabled SMP, but I'm not sure wether |
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> this is still the case. |
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Recent kernels have a more stable preemption mechanism for PPC |
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Regards, |
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EddyP |
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