Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:00:27 -0500 (EST) | From | linux kernel account <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.0 and 2.1 stability.. |
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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Adam McKee wrote:
> > At least, I'll have a chance to try out all the jucy patches that are only > > being maintained for the stable kernel (like raid[1,5] and QNX (the 2.1 > > ver dies with SMP) and others).. > > I'll see about fixing the 2.1 QNX patch. It may just be a locking issue. > What is the exact manner of death with 2.1 SMP? What really hurts is I > don't have an SMP box. I'm always tempted to get one, and I always wuss > out when I see how expensive the mainboards are. Looks like SMP is going > to be pretty sweet with 2.2 though -- I may just bite the bullet next time > I go hardware shopping.
When I tried with .54 I got an instant opps on boot in the scheduler, before any processes fork.
I didn't feel like copying down the opps, so I can't tell you more.
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