Re: xphoton/xfree86 4.2 for qnx6.1

I know you will step out this time :)
OK, now that you two are hooked up, hope the problem will be
resolved.

Frank

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Chris McKillop wrote:

> >
> > On 22 May 2002, Todd Meade wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW, the SMP issues (even in X clients using a remote X server) still
> > > cause a lockup.  Boot with one CPU and all is fine.
> > >
> >
> > Looks to me like a bug in the QNX6.1's support of SMP.
> > If you are a commmercial user, Chris can probably hook you up
> > to QSSL resources. Otherwise, the "good news" is SMP support
> > will be taken out from the Non Commercial release of QNX 6.2
> > because of the flakiness.
> >
>
> What?  That isn't why it is being taken out at all!  It is being taken out
> because it is considered too valuable of an asset to be given away in the
> free version (since there are not CPU limits).  Not sure I personally agree
> but that is the reasoning.  Just for the record, there has only ever been
> one SMP related bug in any release that was a kernel issue.  Most problems
> people have seen on SMP machines have been threaded applications taking a
> fit.
>
> Todd - where is the lockup happening?  Is the entire machine locking up or
> just XPhoton or just Photon?
>
>     chris
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