> I might be able to find some hardware still lying around here that uses an > i810. Not sure unless I go hunting it. But I get the impression that if > the kernel is a single-CPU kernel there is not any problem anyway? Don't > distros offer a non-smp kernel as an installation option in case the user > needs it? So in reality how big a problem is this? Not anymore, which is my old point of making a fuss. Nowadays in the modern distro world, we supply a single kernel that can at runtime decide if its running on SMP or UP and rewrite the text section appropriately with locks etc. Its like magic, and something like marking drivers as BROKEN_ON_SMP at compile time is really wrong when what you want now is a runtime warning if someone tries to hotplug a CPU with a known iffy driver loaded or if someone tries to load the driver when we are already in SMP mode. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
