Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: SMP, Interrupts and RTLinux | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:17:53 +0000 (WET) |
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"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:" > > > init_some_device(); > > while(device_registers->control & NOT_READY) > > ; > > situation is extremely legitimate and should not be changed because > > our SMP has this peculiarity.
> Having talked to Victor Yodaiken at Usenix about real time Linux I don't > plan to touch the IRQ code until the rtlinux code is in the kernel. The
I would like a temporary fix for 2.0.* asap (TM), please. Keyboards are widely available and someone is going to attach one to a SMP machine sometime soon ... ;-) without a fix I can't swear to scientific computing guys that a linux smp machine is a good buy.
regards and keep up the good work!
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