Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:00:27 -0500 (EST) | | From | linux kernel account <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.0 and 2.1 stability.. |
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Adam McKee wrote:
> > At least, I'll have a chance to try out all the jucy patches that are only
> > being maintained for the stable kernel (like raid[1,5] and QNX (the 2.1
> > ver dies with SMP) and others)..
>
> I'll see about fixing the 2.1 QNX patch. It may just be a locking issue.
> What is the exact manner of death with 2.1 SMP? What really hurts is I
> don't have an SMP box. I'm always tempted to get one, and I always wuss
> out when I see how expensive the mainboards are. Looks like SMP is going
> to be pretty sweet with 2.2 though -- I may just bite the bullet next time
> I go hardware shopping.
When I tried with .54 I got an instant opps on boot in the scheduler,
before any processes fork.
I didn't feel like copying down the opps, so I can't tell you more.
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