On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > ... and the smp sample kernel booted! > > It took a grueling 75 minutes, wherein my spiffy UW SCSI > hard drive made incessant grinding crunchy noises the likes > of which I haven't heard since about 1990 with a ST225 MFM > drive! ( I can build oskit natively for Linux in < 10 mins ) > > But it worked! I must say that I am very impressed. Now, if > I had only given it the "--prefix=/" option during configure... > > Well, one step at a time, I suppose. Next I'll be trying to compile > the oskit-mach source natively. Once that works, I'll be ready to > start tinkering with the SMP code. Anything that will speed up > this legion of wildebeasts will be very useful, I'm sure. > > Man, that ncr53c8xx SCSI driver in gnumach-1.2.5 really might > have a performance issue. I hope the oskit-mach drivers somehow > magically make it faster.
I've built oskit and oskit-mach natively on Hurd before, and it also took me a while while having to endure similar noises. I don't think the SCSI driver is the problem because I have an IDE drive, the bottleneck must lie somewhere else. > > Well, that's it for now. Next -> oskit-mach native build. > > Any tips or pointers are always welcome. > What helped me the most was keeping my CPU cool. :-) Just keep a log of the build because it might be helpful to figure out what happend if the build fails or the sytem crashes. > Regards, > - Doug > My exams will soon be over, so I hope I can get back to work on oskit-mach and other things soon. Igor
