Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 06 Apr 2003 14:30:46 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 07:23, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Congratulations rml!
No, congratulations to Zwane :)
> If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long > way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the > preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.
Indeed. Successfully booting and running a 32-way SMP+preempt machine is a very good test.
> All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.
If you know of something specific, please share. I know the tty layer needs work, but as far as I can tell, it is SMP issues that preemption exposes... if any drivers in specific need work, let me know.
Robert Love
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