Re: 2.1.80 no-go

Erik Andersen (andersen@inconnect.com)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 12:46:28 -0700 (MST)

Umm. How about we make CONFIG_SMP a config option, and make a new
CONFIG_IO-APIC_SMP config option as well. After all, we now have the nice
new smart-config in the kernel, which means the reason CONFIG_SMP was
moved to a Makefile is no longer an issue. I believe all the
pre-conditions you previosly listed for changing this back are now in
place. I believe that Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> has
already written such a patch that works within the new smart-config
stuff. Linus, any chance of seeing this change soon?

-Erik

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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:


> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> >
> > Kernel 2.1.80 doesn't boot for me -- I get keyboard timeouts, then
> > timeouts on hda, hdb, etc. The results with and without the pirq= boot
> > command seem to be about the same. On my system the pirq command gives
> > 
> > 	pirq=0x0a,0x0b
> > 
> > The system is a Pentium 133, Asus p55t2p4 w/ 32M, EIDE HD.
> 
> Right. The current io-apic code probably doesn't work at all on non-SMP
> systems, so you have to compile for UP to make it work. 
> 
> I'll probably make it default to using the old setup, with a run-time
> utility to set up the IO-APIC interrupt handling. That way we won't be
> making any mistakes at bootup, so the machine will at least work, and we
> can write a small user-level program that parses the PCI irq tables to
> find out what the pirq setting should be..
> 
> That should also make the SMP kernel boot on an UP machine again.
> 
> 		Linus
> 
>