> The following patch is against 2.1.120-pre3. It resolves several
> problems when compiling with SMP = 1 on Alpha.
Thanks for the post, but I don't think SMP works on Linux-Alpha. Nor on NT. In fact, I was
under the impression that the 21164 can't do SMP with shared memory at all. Do you have a
multi-processor box from DEC? If not, what's the motivation for SMP?
Not to discourage you, but if this is your first time compiling a 2.1 kernel, it's probably not
a good time to try to get full-blown SMP working on a multi-processor alpha box. It took a lot
of very smart people a long time to get it working on Intel machines. I'm waiting for
multi-processor 21264 boards to get reasonable in price (i.e. a year or two from now) before
attempting Alpha Linux SMP- I've heard that chip will make SMP easier. But this is largely
irrelevant future speculation.
Oh, BTW, I had about the same error- the one repeated hundreds of times with every disk access
but otherwise not causing trouble- the first time I compiled a 2.1 kernel when I didn't know to
comment out SMP=1.
Zeen,
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