Re: Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arnór> Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been Arnór> battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support Arnór> and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the Arnór> package kernel-image-2.6.8-

Re: Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread John Koskie
Hi, It looks like either will work, but I would start with the first with a few additions. If you look at the first file, you will see that the link to the kernel file: "/boot/vmlinux" is specified rather than the kernel itself "/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-power4-smp". The reason for this is that when

Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread Arnór Kristjánsson
Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the package kernel-image-2.6.8-power4. I want to enable smp in the kernel so I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-smp, ran yabootconf

Altivec problems on G5 using 2.6.8-power4-smp kernel

2005-01-16 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, when I run a program that uses altivec, I get a continuous stream of kernel messages that look like this: AltiVec used in kernel (task=ef839240, pc=0) But, I'm using it in a user program, not in the kernel. Due to the flood of kernel message, klogd ends up eating lots of CPU time (goes to

Altivec problems on G5 using 2.6.8-power4-smp kernel

2005-01-16 Thread Patrick Finnegan
So, when I run a program that uses altivec, I get a continuous stream of kernel messages that look like this: AltiVec used in kernel (task=ef839240, pc=0) But, I'm using it in a user program, not in the kernel. Due to the flood of kernel message, klogd ends up eating lots of CPU time (goes to

Re: Installation package - PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 20:18), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/07/04 20:40), Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:10:33PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (15/07/04 18:00), Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > > Ah! I don't have discover on my production system which is probably > > > > > why > >

Re: Installation package - PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 20:40), Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:10:33PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (15/07/04 18:00), Sven Luther wrote: > > >From /etc/kernel-img.conf: > > # Kernel Image management overrides > > # See kernel-img.cnf(5) for details > > do_symlinks = Yes > > In 'man ker

Re: Installation package - PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:10:33PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/07/04 18:00), Sven Luther wrote: > >From /etc/kernel-img.conf: > # Kernel Image management overrides > # See kernel-img.cnf(5) for details > do_symlinks = Yes In 'man kernel-img.conf' you can read : link_in_boot

Re: Installation package - PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 18:00), Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:30:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (15/07/04 15:32), Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:27:19PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > > > It all worked pretty much "out of the box" - thanks for a v

Re: Installation package - PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:30:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/07/04 15:32), Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:27:19PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > It all worked pretty much "out of the box" - thanks for a very > > > smooth installer ;) > > > > > > Installin

Re: Installation package - PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 15:32), Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:27:19PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > It all worked pretty much "out of the box" - thanks for a very > > smooth installer ;) > > > > Installing 2.6.7-powerpc-smp worked seamlessly on the new > > install and so

Re: PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:27:19PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > 'xcuse the cross post but given some recent comments on the 2.6.7 > kernel on powerpc, I thought this may be useful. > > Debian-installer-version: sarge powerpc tcl.1 9 June 2004 > uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.7-powerpc-smp #1

PowerPC sarge d-i tcl1 and upgrade to 2.6.7 smp kernel

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi 'xcuse the cross post but given some recent comments on the 2.6.7 kernel on powerpc, I thought this may be useful. Debian-installer-version: sarge powerpc tcl.1 9 June 2004 uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.7-powerpc-smp #1 SMP Sat Jul 10 04:14:32 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux after installing new kernel r

Re: SMP Kernel

2002-04-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:06:35PM +0200, Ralf Saalm?ller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am ?Re: SMP Kernel?. > [2002-04-18 12:17] > QUIK: > As I said I got a working MP setup and lost it when I tried to compile a > custom kernel. Somehow I must have lost the quik bootloa

Re: SMP Kernel

2002-04-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
T >This three lines of hardcore information is missing with every pmac smp >kernel. It look like it's true. Because of problems with quik I set up >debian/GNU Linux from the start. And after I rebooted with the kernel-image- >2.4.18-powerpc-smp and with quik I got 2 Tux (2 cpu

Re: SMP Kernel

2002-04-21 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
after reboot?!?! > >SMP: > How do you boot ? quik (OF) or BootX ? If you boot with BootX and your > MacOS is more recent than 8.1, you will have problems getting the second > CPU to start as it will have been hijacked by MacOS. ATTENTION - IMPORTANT This three lines of hardcore informatio

Re: SMP Kernel

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:37:07AM +0200, Ralf Saalm?ller wrote: > Hello, > In the end I might ask some of the gurus: Does it make sense to allow to > change from kernel 2.2 to kernel 2.4 when the hardware isn't recognized the > same way? Wouldn't it be a _very_ good idea to do a woody/kernel-2.2

Re: SMP Kernel

2002-04-18 Thread eric . s . cote
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:37:07AM +0200, Ralf Saalm?ller wrote: > Hello, > need to be patched. Done and no difference. It look like this patch came > from the NetBSD team and there I found that after the patch that > OpenFirmware will sync with 640*400 60HZ!?!?! > > Is this true? Does kernel 2

Re: SMP Kernel

2002-04-18 Thread benh
s fucked up after boot and won't receive/send anything useful. I seems that can also be triggered by some DHCP clients, though I haven't yet found what's wrong. > >SMP: >After installing woody and setting up the base system I installed the >dselect kernel image 2.4.18 p

SMP Kernel

2002-04-18 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
etwork setting? SMP: After installing woody and setting up the base system I installed the dselect kernel image 2.4.18 powerpc-smp. After I worked around the previous bugs/features I found that I've got 2 CPUs working (cat /proc/cpuinfo showed 2). Then I tried to get a better smp kernel with at