Re: BootX

2011-01-22 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, If I enable SMP then I can build a 2.6.28 kernel with gcc 4.3.5 that WILL boot on the PowerMac8600 (single 750GX). The previously mentioned G4 that runs is a dual cpu beast and thus also runs SMP. I at least know this (ok, I THINK I know): For non-SMP: The spinlock 'acct_lock' in kernel/acc

[PATCH v5 06/27] powerpc: introduce little-endian bitops

2011-01-22 Thread Akinobu Mita
Introduce little-endian bit operations by renaming existing powerpc native little-endian bit operations and changing them to take any pointer types. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org --- Change from v4: - change the pro

Re: [patch 0/2] Sparse irq cleanup - Resend

2011-01-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 16:12 +, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The following series cleans up the left overs of the old sparse irq > code. For some odd reason I forgot to put that in the last time around. I'll try to remember to do so on monday before I go to LCA. Cheers, Ben.

Re: mpc880 linux-2.6.32 slow running processes

2011-01-22 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Heiko Schocher wrote on 2011/01/21 07:53:02: > Hello Joakim, > > Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > >> Sent by: > >> linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode...@lists.ozlabs.org > >> > >> Rafael Beims wrote on 2011/01/10 17:35:38: > Once you have tested it and it works, please send a patch to