Re: spinlocks (general status request)

"Max Laier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> okay, spinlocks.org is down (?for quite some time?) and google didn't
> get me any further. So can anyone point me to a bit more information
> on the status(and maybe on how-to compile a kernel from that tree)
> than found here: http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html and in that cunfusing
> (to me as a cvs beginner) README.SMP

Well, check out -rSMP src/sys in a directory of your choice and see what
happens. You will get a full subtree for the kernel sources as well as a
GENERIC.MP kernel config file.

In my understanding, README.SMP is mostly only interesting for
developers with cvs access. The build process is exactly the same like
shown in the upgrade-mini-faq, just with GENERIC.MP of course, and if i
don't miss something. Last time i tried to compile, it encountered some
inconsistency and didn't finish.

Also, there are some typos in README.SMP which were reported to bugs@,
but nobody seemed to care.

> I have a dual PII here and am willing to get it working! So someone
> please help me to get started ...
> 

The second CPU should be detected in the current state but won't be
usefull. That's all i know so far.
Some got GENERIC.MP compiling and has more info on howto do this
properly?

Martin Reindl