Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:11:45 +0200 | From | Schwarzseher <> | Subject | 2.5.68: SMP for arch/sparc broken? |
| |
Hi, I'm currently trying to get linux running on my old (but it's my own :-) Tatung SparcStation 20 clone, mainly for acting as a dsl-router / firewall. Kind of exotic I guess, but funny. I must confess that I'm pretty new to linux on sparc while running linux on i386 for nearly 8 years.
The device has two processors (high speed 85MHz). I installed a debian distro and now trying to bring it on actual (or rather bleeding edge) software revisions.
While trying to compile a 2.5.68 kernel I stumbled into a problem: the function "cpu_possible": while being defined for other architectures in include/asm-i386/smp.h or similar it is missing in include/asm-sparc/smp.h. Unfortunately it seems to be needed to successfully compile a kernel because several other things depend on it. Also unfortunately I don't have the slightest idea on how to fix it because I'm not that deep in the sparc system architecture (or the linux kernel architecture).
Any suggestions (besides to stay with a (successfully for SMP compiled) 2.4.20 kernel)?
Regards Schwarzseher
P.S.: When already at the topic, now offtopic for this list: any ideas on why swapon /dev/sdc2 throws a core since I updated the kernel to 2.4.20? The swapon systemcall is called and the swapspace is added but afterwards the swapon utility makes a segfault.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |