Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 19 August 2006 22:12, Joey Hess wrote: > Moreover, we can remove some of the not very well working code that > tries to detect smp: Done. pgpVbAQWOLbwk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-19 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Yes, of course. Should have seen that :-P > > So we can safely forget about the SMP issue :-) Moreover, we can remove some of the not very well working code that tries to detect smp: rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S04countcpus-linux-x86 (but not S04countcpus-linux

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 August 2006 19:53, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > If I understand FS correctly, the 486 flavor of the kernel is still > > UP, which means that we still have the same problem in the > > installer... > > Well, the installer won't know it's a smp system, but if it installs a > 68

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread David Härdeman
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:59:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: And is there a way to override SMP detection on the kernel commandline? 2.6.17 still doesn't give me a reliable clock on my amd64 system when running smp. Boot with "nosmp" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:33:59AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra > > processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. > And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 18 August 2006 11:33, you wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the > > > extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. > > > > And fixed with 2.6.17 for i38

Bug#383544: Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:33:59AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra > > processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. > > And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and a

Bug#383544: Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Any idea if the HTT flag being present would be a reliable indication of > dual-core? Not sure, but it sounds like a reasonable assumption. > Looks easy enough to implement if we get confirmation. > Care to send in the output of dmidec

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 August 2006 11:33, you wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the > > extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. > > And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64. 2.6.17 don't lon

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra > processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64. 2.6.17 don't longer provide UP versions of the kernels. Bastian -

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 August 2006 01:04, dann frazier wrote: > I just noticed that d-i chose to install a 686 kernel instead of a > 686-smp kernel. Of course, with a non-SMP kernel installed > /proc/cpuinfo only shows 1 CPU. But, after I installed the SMP flavor > it has: That's a known issue. Unfortunatel

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-17 Thread dann frazier
I just noticed that d-i chose to install a 686 kernel instead of a 686-smp kernel. Of course, with a non-SMP kernel installed /proc/cpuinfo only shows 1 CPU. But, after I installed the SMP flavor it has: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 mo