RE: challenge for linux-SMP hackers

DAVID J. WEIS (weisd3458@uni.edu)
Wed, 04 Feb 1998 13:26:32 -0600 (CST)

Will they give out info on how they did it, or do they think it's worthy
of keeping secret? I suppose we could disassemble the nt hal they supply
but that would probably be a lot of work.

djweis

> I have an NCR 3430 here with two Pentium 60Mhz processors in it. I tried
> my best to get it to boot Linux in SMP mode one day. However, after a
> couple of discussions with NCR techs (in comp.sys.ncr) and even a message
> from someone at Intel, I found the reason. NCR was doing SMP before the
> Intel SMP specification came out. Therefore its SMP solution is unique
> and Linux (at this time) doesn't support it.
>
> It would be cool to get it working though!!

David Weis
weisd3458@uni.edu

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