On Oct 18, 2007 10:56 AM, Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Eduardo Tongson wrote: > > > >> > >> or if you want to go specifically via .config (though i'd recommend > >> compiling by hand, note _GENERIC_CPU is not set): > >> > > > > What is the difference between "via .config" and "compiling by hand" ? > > > > sorry: > > via .config = editing .config using vi/pico and changing the settings > from there > compiling by hand = not using genkernel or/ going through menuconfig > to change settings and not using genkernel's config as a baseline. > > this guy has a working -r5 for turion x2: http://asusa6tc.ovh.org/ > config-2.6.22-gentoo-r5 > > i'd recommend starting from a fresh .config and not one from > genkernel as a baseline. Some setting may have been missed. >
Guys, I finally nailed it. What I did was unchecked the experimental 64 bit Memory and IO resources option in the Processor types and features section. # CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT is not set After unsetting this, the kernel finally recognized the 2 cores. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux $ dmesg | grep -i cpu Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0471000 soft=c046f000 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 0(2) -> Core 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02 CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c0472000 soft=c0470000 Initializing CPU#1 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 1(2) -> Core 1 CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f CPU1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02 Brought up 2 CPUs Thanks for all the help. Cheers. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
