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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 08:00, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 21:05, John Davis wrote: |
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> > Looks good to me :) I will start building my livecd tonite to test. I |
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> > don't have any SMP machines though ... if I build it and upload it, |
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> > would someone (wolf, mattm?) be willing to run some tests? |
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> I have no problems with that, but perhaps we could start with the kernel |
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> config I used for the ut2004-demo gamecd? It is already 2.6 and |
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> working. |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48877 |
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We could try it, but I would really rather use roger55's for the generic |
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LiveCDs because it has been more or less hand tailored for that purpose. |
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> Also, I'm not exactly a kernel expert by any means, but what is the real |
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> disadvantage to having a SMP kernel on a UP machine? I understand that |
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> there is a tiny bit of overhead in doing so, but are there any major |
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> disadvantages? |
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I am no expert either, but I think that it has something to do with APIC |
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and SMP not playing nicely with all drivers. I am sure roger or livewire |
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could comment more. |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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