I would get the 2.3.99-pre9 kernel and try it first. I have it running on a dual
smp and it works perfect so far but the 2.4.0-test kernels not so yet, but
I would try them anyway after the 2.3.99-pre9.
Tom Berkley
Simon Wing-Tang wrote:
> Hi people,
> I'm attempting to get Linux to come up SMP on an old NCR 3450
> server. This server has 8 Pentium 90 CPU's and runs the old MCA bus
> architecture. The details I know so far are as follows....
>
> * System - NCR 3450
> * CPU - 8X90MHZ
> * MEM - 1024MB
> * NCR certified MP1.1/1.4 compliant
> * NCR certified NT4.0 ( with vendor supplied "HAL" )
> * System boots Linux using the Slackware ibmmca.s boot image ( which
> is SMP aware )
> * System reports " Jul 27 14:48:00 aardvark kernel: SMP motherboard
> not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation."
>
> I'm guessing that the kernel does a probe of the BIOS to get the SMP
> information it requires. On some motherboards the BIOS needs to be set to
> MP1.1/1.4 mode or Unixware or something like that. There is no option to
> set anything like this in the 3450 as it was built to run NCR MP-RAS UNIX.
> Under the vendor OS it sees all 8 CPU's with no problems, but not under
> Linux.
>
> So, is there anyone else out there that has Linux running on one of
> these machines and managed to get SMP going ? I'm also guessing that it
> could be possible to force the SMP probe to succeed and manually set up the
> kernel with the required parameters, this may be more effort than it's worth
> though. Any ideas here? By the way, I have checked the usual sites for SMP
> and MCA Linux but have found nothing to help so far.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon.
>
> Simon Wing-Tang
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Unix Systems Support
> Coles-Myer LTD.
>
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