Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 08:01:50PM +1300, Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:33 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > > > Ken, are K10 and A10 the same? > > Nope. K10 refers to a generation of AMD processors from about 3 years > ago (including the Phenom II in my current desktop box). A10 is a >

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-05 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 5, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Simon Geard wrote: > Yeah, I got burned that way, when I built my first multicore system a > few years ago. You'd think that these days, it'd be a reasonable > default... SMP has been default in a defconfig for a very long time for x86 and x86_64. Sincerely, Willi

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:33 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > Mentioning the obvious always helps--the old "forest and trees." In this > case, however, even with that particular > option doesn't seem to be present. But, I discovered much to my > embarassment that CONFIG_SMP was not set. Rats. Yeah, I

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/04/2013 04:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >>Powernow is for cpufreq (a good thing to use, IMHO, but not >> mentioned in LFS) and not used anymore for K10 and newer CPUs (the >> support is now in acpi-cpufreq). From memory, the initial K10 was >> the athlon64xII. My git-fo

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:46:47PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> >>> AMD-10-5745M >> >> Have you used the powernow-k8 driver and have SMP enabled? >> >> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X86_POWERNOW_K8.html >> >> Sincere

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > CONFIG_MK8 but works on K10 Ah was trying to find the exact configure option. It works with my A4 3400, as well. SIncerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:46:47PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > > > AMD-10-5745M > > Have you used the powernow-k8 driver and have SMP enabled? > > http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X86_POWERNOW_K8.html > > Sincerely, > > WIlliam Harring

Re: [lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > AMD-10-5745M Have you used the powernow-k8 driver and have SMP enabled? http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X86_POWERNOW_K8.html Sincerely, WIlliam Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromsc

[lfs-support] Configuring 3.10.10 for quad-core processor

2013-12-04 Thread Dan McGhee
I was slogging through dmesg in my new LFS system and didn't find more than one CPU loaded. I have an AMD-10-5745M processor which has a quad-core. I tried to reconfigure the kernel to support it but it wouldn't boot. Am reverting back to the one I know works. Can anyone suggest the .config