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 686+

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

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

2006-08-18 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

2006-08-18 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 longer

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 dmidecode

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 amd64.

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 i386 and amd64.

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 amd64.

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

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

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. Unfortunately