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SubjectRe: challenge for linux-SMP hackers

Have you tried building a kernel with MCA support? The current patches for
older kernels (2.0.xx) are at
http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/

I don't know what the state of the mca stuff in 2.1.xx is however. If you
would like to ship it to the mca-linux headquarters, I'll split shipping
:-)

Try putting together a kernel with MCA support and see how far it gets.
Yell when it dies....

djweis

On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:

> A friend of mine has access to a machine which one of you SMP hackers
> out there might be interested in toying around with:
>
> It's an NCR 3550 : a 6 CPU P90 machine with 1gb ram. It's unique in that
> it's an MCA machine.
>
> It works just fine in UP mode, but if you try to boot an SMP kernel it
> gets an NMI and gets rebooted by the hardware watchdog. NT and NCR unix
> work fine on this machine. It would be nice to see linux run on this class
> of hardware too.
>
> If any hackers want to give a go at this machine, we can set up logins
> over the net. Otherwise, this machine will just sit in a warehouse and
> rot.
>
> -Dan
>
>
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