Re: Breakage in tree

And I'm a moron... Typing ls explained what Niklas was talking about. I 
definitively fat-fingered that one.

Off to do some playing.

On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:00 AM, Niklas Hallqvist wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of you have seen there is once again SMP activity, this time I 
> have good hopes
> of getting to a point where the branch will be usable before I once 
> again will be hit
> my real life demands :-)  Genua is sponsoring me for this work, and it 
> is very
> appreciated.
>
> The SMP branch now works for some i386 MP systems (the config to use 
> is GENERIC.MP),
> if booting multiuser and staying up for a few hours can be considered 
> working :-)
> There are a bunch of machine specific problems (e.g. motherboards with 
> non-standard
> interrupt routing), at least one more serious data corruption problem 
> (meaning, do
> not write to important files, if you have no way of recreating them) 
> and there
> is still missing all userland support (like ps and top support).
>
> That said, the report Marco provided is for a build of the normal 
> GENERIC kernel
> without SMP support, of course those issues need to be fixed too, 
> although it's a
> low priority.  I don't even believe such a kernel will work, I have 
> not tested it
> at all.  I also doubt the MP kernel will work on UP systems, but you 
> are free to test.
> Don't expect me to react fast to report or questions on this, I rather 
> keep
> a low communicative profile, and instead work at a full pace, and I 
> believe my
> funder expects me to as well :-)
>
> Happy hacking,
> Niklas