Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Bergner <> | Date | Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:34:47 -0600 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Boot log for Linux PPC64 on POWER3 hardware |
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Peter Samuelson wrote: : Impressive. One question, though -- : : > starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,POWER3@1...ok : > starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,POWER3@2...ok : > starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,POWER3@3...ok : : You have 4 CPUs? : : > OpenPIC Version 1.2 (8 CPUs and 32 IRQ sources) at e000000001002000 : > OpenPIC timer frequency is 0 MHz : : ...or is it 8 CPUs? : : > swamsauger:~ # uname -a : > Linux swamsauger 2.4.0-tg11 #188 Thu Feb 22 19:55:45 CST 2001 ppc64 unknown : > swamsauger:~ # : > swamsauger:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo : > processor : 0 : : ...or just one CPU?
Olaf pretty much answered all your questions. Yes we are running a non-SMP kernel at the moment, but even non-SMP kernels need to place an SMP's unused processors in a spin loop so they don't play havoc with the system.
Peter
-- Peter Bergner SLIC Optimizing Translator Development / Linux PPC64 Kernel Development IBM Rochester, MN bergner@us.ibm.com
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