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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, geoff@collyer.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] kernels
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:08:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060311030837.34B1EB4970@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3037290add86313840661dc1b61f81a8@collyer.net>

i believe those problems were inherent to the code, not the platform.
early versions of 2.4 did not work with l440gx+ machines at all.

- erik

geoff@collyer.net writes

|
| I helped a friend add a second processor to an l440gx+ in 2003.  It
| was running RedHat and needed a fix to one of the file system
| implementations (ext3?) but I also have a faint memory of needing to
| upgrade its firmware to make SMP work reliably.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10 15:24 Russ Cox
2006-03-10 15:40 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-10 21:13   ` Sam Hopkins
2006-03-10 22:26   ` David Leimbach
2006-03-10 22:37     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-10 17:25 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 17:36   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-10 17:45     ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 18:37       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-10 19:12       ` jmk
2006-03-10 21:16         ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-10 21:28           ` Russ Cox
2006-03-10 21:31           ` jmk
2006-03-10 22:07             ` William Josephson
2006-03-10 22:18               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-10 22:56                 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-10 22:53                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-10 23:02                     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-11  2:04         ` geoff
2006-03-11  2:56           ` jmk
2006-03-11  3:14             ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-11  3:31               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-03-11  3:40                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-11  7:55                 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-11 15:53                 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-11 15:59                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-11  4:27               ` jmk
2006-03-11  5:40                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-11  3:08           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-03-10 17:30 ` Tim Wiess
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-01  3:35 David Presotto

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