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From"Peter T. Breuer" <>
SubjectRe: SMP, Interrupts and RTLinux
DateWed, 15 Jan 1997 08:17:53 +0000 (WET)
"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:"
> > > 	init_some_device();
> > 	while(device_registers->control & NOT_READY)
> > 		;
> > situation is extremely legitimate and should not be changed because
> > our SMP has this peculiarity.

> Having talked to Victor Yodaiken at Usenix about real time Linux I don't
> plan to touch the IRQ code until the rtlinux code is in the kernel. The

I would like a temporary fix for 2.0.* asap (TM), please. Keyboards
are widely available and someone is going to attach one to a SMP
machine sometime soon ... ;-) without a fix I can't swear to scientific
computing guys that a linux smp machine is a good buy.

regards and keep up the good work!


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