Brad Barnett wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:51:58 -0800 > "Rich Kadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The real test would be if all 4 PVR 500's will work (stable) with a new >> motherboard, and I don't have a motherboard in my desktop machine with 4 >> PCI slots. On a whim, I've crossed my fingers and purchased a new MSI >> 945P_Neo3-F and Intel Core 2 Duo 6600E (and 2Gigs DDR2) to replace the >> ASUS board and Opteron. Maybe this will do the trick. I'm recompiling >> the kernel to include SMP. Let me know if anything here sounds like a >> bad idea. >> >> > > There were SMP issues a while back, but I believe that Hans has solved > them. > > I don't know about this motherboard personally, so I can't comment on it. > I would check and make sure that the SATA controller and other tidbits are > fully supported. These days though, if the motherboard is a few months > old (that is, not just new on the market), Linux is generally very good at > supporting the mainline items on it. >
I am not completely sure of this statement. I recently upgraded from 0.9.1 to 0.10.0 on a single cpu box with hyperthreading. I now get kernel panics within 4 hours if I run a SMP kernel whether I am recording or not. The box remains up but it causes the nic in the machine to stop responding and it stops registering interrupts. If I boot with maxcpus=1, then the box remains stable. Also rolling back to 0.9.1 with HT also gives me a stable box. I will try to submit a better bug report this weekend. Michael _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
