Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Rafał Cygnarowski
Dnia wtorek, 23 stycznia 2007, Bartosz Taudul napisał: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:32:54PM +0100, Rafał Cygnarowski wrote: Besides... if there is problem with thouse devices on smp kernel than it should be fixed and I think it's the correct way to solve problem (not running away to up

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Rafał Cygnarowski
2. Paweł Sikora iirc not all stuff works fine in smp enviroment. e.g. some lirc drivers, video tuners, tape/floppy drivers. _some_ - which one? what are the symptoms of not working? oops? where they are? 2.6.17 doesn't have one tape driver ( 2.6.20 not checked ), lirc_parallel.c

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Tomasz Pala
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:16:22AM +0100, Rafał Cygnarowski wrote: There is nothing to fix so far, couse no one said concretes informatinon - only rumors: There were (or are?) some (yeah, some;) SMP issues in netfilter modules also. I didn't notice any on my SMP machines, but I've got there

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Artur Flinta
Paweł Sikora wrote: ./cdrom/Kconfig-tristate Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative, Longshine, TEAC CDROM support ./cdrom/Kconfig-tristate Philips/LMS CM206 CDROM support ./cdrom/Kconfig-config CDU31A ./cdrom/Kconfig-tristate Sony CDU31A/CDU33A CDROM support Looks like

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Rafał Cygnarowski
Dnia wtorek, 23 stycznia 2007, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz napisał: Yes. I even know a person who is using one of them. They are dumb and very useful for copying CDs protected by malformed CD info. How do you think: persons with such hardwer need special kernel with extra patches? What about

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:40:25AM +0100, Paweł Sikora wrote: 2.6.17 doesn't have one tape driver ( 2.6.20 not checked ), lirc_parallel.c isn't smp safe, v4l looks fixed in recent 2.6.x 2.6.20: ./cdrom/Kconfig-config SBPCD [...] Are these broken on SMP kernel or broken on SMP system? I

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-23 Thread Paweł Gołaszewski
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jakub Bogusz wrote: iirc not all stuff works fine in smp enviroment. e.g. some lirc drivers, video tuners, tape/floppy drivers. But most of that will work well with SMP kernel on a single processor/core. For multi-CPU machines (including multi-core and

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-22 Thread Cezary Krzyzanowski
Dnia 21-01-2007, nie o godzinie 21:58 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz napisał(a): +1 I use SMP kernels while having a single one-core CPU. It's just damn easier to share packages among laptops. +1 +1 here, too. An unsure +1, if an SMP kernel really works everywhere and

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-22 Thread Paweł Sikora
iirc not all stuff works fine in smp enviroment. e.g. some lirc drivers, video tuners, tape/floppy drivers. ___ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-22 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:20:34PM +0100, Marcin Król wrote: An what about trying to turn ACPI off? I was trying this, and few more AFAIR. None of them helped. It looked like this: lilo, dots after pressing enter, end of story. Not even single character from kernel bootup was displayed.

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-22 Thread Rafał Cygnarowski
Dnia poniedziałek, 22 stycznia 2007, Jakub Bogusz napisał: What about modules marked as BROKEN_ON_SMP since the beginning (of BROKEN_ON_SMP flag)? I see no source files with BROKEN_ON_SMP string. grep -r BROKEN_ON_SMP linux-2.6.19/ shows only CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y in config files (or am I

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-22 Thread Bartosz Taudul
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:32:54PM +0100, Rafał Cygnarowski wrote: Besides... if there is problem with thouse devices on smp kernel than it should be fixed and I think it's the correct way to solve problem (not running away to up kernel...). So fix them and then we'll talk. There are many

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-21 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
Dnia 21-01-2007, nie o godzinie 21:32 +0100, Artur Flinta napisał(a): Hi! I have idea to provide in Th only SMP kernels. Pro: - simplify kernel build process - simplify building kernel dependent packages (drivers, VMware, VirtualBox, etc.) - unified kernel for support - full speed on

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-21 Thread Tomasz Rutkowski
Dnia Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:42:15 +0100 Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): Dnia 21-01-2007, nie o godzinie 21:32 +0100, Artur Flinta napisał(a): Hi! I have idea to provide in Th only SMP kernels. Pro: - simplify kernel build process - simplify building kernel dependent

Re: [Th] SMP for all!

2007-01-21 Thread Marcin Król
Cons: - ? I have no idea what to put here :) There is one. I've encountered some UP hardware where running any SMP kernel simply locks whole machine. No boot messages, no errors. That was also reason why Ra and Ac bootdisks weren't based on SMP kernels. M.