Gordan Bobic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have recently obtained an old ICL machine (from around 1991/1992). It
> has CPU boards with multiple processor slots. The processors installed are
> 486DX/50 (2 of them), and the machine only has EISA bus (no PCI).
[...]
> At boot-up, the machine says that no SMP compliant motherboard has been
> detected, and is says it will use the dummy emulation APIC. It also says
> that it only foudn one CPU, CPU0.
Linux uses MP1.[1|4] standard in BIOS to detect multiple processors
availability. Your old machine certainly does not have this feature. If
you have hardware specification of it (that is to say how processors
communicate between each other), you could try to hack smp support in
linux, but I really doubt it is easy and worth it (except pure hacking
value, of course ;-).
david
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