Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Feb 1998 14:42:04 -0600 (CST) | From | "DAVID J. WEIS" <> | Subject | Re: challenge for linux-SMP hackers |
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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 > > > > Return-path: <owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.rutgers.EDU> > Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu ([134.53.193.10]) > by uni.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #U2748) with ESMTP id <01IT59C297E48YSXZL@uni.edu> > for WEISD3458@uni.edu; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:06:43 CST > Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (root@vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) > by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05791; Tue, > 03 Feb 1998 14:53:12 -0500 > Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <971511-206>; Tue, 03 Feb 1998 14:33:37 -0500 > Received: from anime.net > ([205.139.105.150]:2329 "EHLO sasami.anime.net" ident: "goemon") > by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <971536-206>; Tue, 03 Feb 1998 13:51:58 -0500 > Received: from localhost (goemon@localhost) by sasami.anime.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) > with SMTP id KAA12972; Tue, 03 Feb 1998 10:54:07 -0800 > Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 10:54:06 -0800 (PST) > From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> > Subject: challenge for linux-SMP hackers > Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.EDU > To: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.EDU > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.EDU > Reply-to: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> > Message-id: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980130122417.12869A-100000@sasami.anime.net> > MIME-version: 1.0 > Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Precedence: bulk > X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu >
David Weis weisd3458@uni.edu
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