HyperSPARC users unite! ;-)

To all the folks trying to get 2.4 working on HyperSPARCS: There was a mail
on sparclinux that suggests someone else is working on 2.5/HyperSPARC.

Maybe you should join forces.

Cheers,
Ingo

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From: "Keith M Wesolowski" <[email protected]>
To: "Pete Zaitcev" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Implement sun4m non-xcall IPIs


> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 07:35:06PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>
> > Interesting, but I have no opinion. I'll just take it and
> > deal with the fallout later. I assume that you did not have
> > a chance to test it on SuperSPARC, or did you?
>
> Yes, I tested 2xSM71 and 4xHS90.
>
> > Also, why are you calling them "non-xcall"? Looks like a
> > cross-call to me, except that it does not pass a function
> > pointer, so you can argue semantics here...
>
> Right, it's the direct path rather than the generic
> smp4m_cross_call_irq path.  Semantics only.
>
> > What do you think about making SMP on 2.5 working, Keith?
> > I was just going to look at it, but if you want it, I don't mind.
>
> Fire away.  My time is somewhat limited, so I'll be focusing my energy
> on 2.5 hypersparc for a while.  If you can make SMP SuperSPARC work,
> that'll mean less work for me when I look at SMP hyper.
>
> I do have one more pending SMP patch, which I'll send shortly.
>
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