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Subject: Documentation: remove obsolete voyager.txt file
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
x86/Voyager support has been removed a year ago.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
Inspired-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/voyager.txt | 95 ------------------------------------
1 file changed, 95 deletions(-)
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-Running Linux on the Voyager Architecture
-=========================================
-
-For full details and current project status, see
-
-http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager
-
-The voyager architecture was designed by NCR in the mid 80s to be a
-fully SMP capable RAS computing architecture built around intel's 486
-chip set. The voyager came in three levels of architectural
-sophistication: 3,4 and 5 --- 1 and 2 never made it out of prototype.
-The linux patches support only the Level 5 voyager architecture (any
-machine class 3435 and above).
-
-The Voyager Architecture
-------------------------
-
-Voyager machines consist of a Baseboard with a 386 diagnostic
-processor, a Power Supply Interface (PSI) a Primary and possibly
-Secondary Microchannel bus and between 2 and 20 voyager slots. The
-voyager slots can be populated with memory and cpu cards (up to 4GB
-memory and from 1 486 to 32 Pentium Pro processors). Internally, the
-voyager has a dual arbitrated system bus and a configuration and test
-bus (CAT). The voyager bus speed is 40MHz. Therefore (since all
-voyager cards are dual ported for each system bus) the maximum
-transfer rate is 320Mb/s but only if you have your slot configuration
-tuned (only memory cards can communicate with both busses at once, CPU
-cards utilise them one at a time).
-
-Voyager SMP
------------
-
-Since voyager was the first intel based SMP system, it is slightly
-more primitive than the Intel IO-APIC approach to SMP. Voyager allows
-arbitrary interrupt routing (including processor affinity routing) of
-all 16 PC type interrupts. However it does this by using a modified
-5259 master/slave chip set instead of an APIC bus. Additionally,
-voyager supports Cross Processor Interrupts (CPI) equivalent to the
-APIC IPIs. There are two routed voyager interrupt lines provided to
-each slot.
-
-Processor Cards
----------------
-
-These come in single, dyadic and quad configurations (the quads are
-problematic--see later). The maximum configuration is 8 quad cards
-for 32 way SMP.
-
-Quad Processors
----------------
-
-Because voyager only supplies two interrupt lines to each Processor
-card, the Quad processors have to be configured (and Bootstrapped) in
-as a pair of Master/Slave processors.
-
-In fact, most Quad cards only accept one VIC interrupt line, so they
-have one interrupt handling processor (called the VIC extended
-processor) and three non-interrupt handling processors.
-
-Current Status
---------------
-
-The System will boot on Mono, Dyad and Quad cards. There was
-originally a Quad boot problem which has been fixed by proper gdt
-alignment in the initial boot loader. If you still cannot get your
-voyager system to boot, email me at:
-
-<J.E.J.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-
-
-The Quad cards now support using the separate Quad CPI vectors instead
-of going through the VIC mailbox system.
-
-The Level 4 architecture (3430 and 3360 Machines) should also work
-fine.
-
-Dump Switch
------------
-
-The voyager dump switch sends out a broadcast NMI which the voyager
-code intercepts and does a task dump.
-
-Power Switch
-------------
-
-The front panel power switch is intercepted by the kernel and should
-cause a system shutdown and power off.
-
-A Note About Mixed CPU Systems
-------------------------------
-
-Linux isn't designed to handle mixed CPU systems very well. In order
-to get everything going you *must* make sure that your lowest
-capability CPU is used for booting. Also, mixing CPU classes
-(e.g. 486 and 586) is really not going to work very well at all.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
acpica-fix-acpi_ex_release_mutex-comment.patch
scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch
staging-rt2860-correct-onstack-wait_queue_head-declaration.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-convert-some-include-asm-to-include-linux.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-define-space-and-column-neatening.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-use-pr_level.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-braces.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-used-once-check_ready-macro.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-hoist-assigns-from-ifs-neatening.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-last_out-macro.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-comment-neatening-and-remove-naked.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-clearstruct-macro-use-memset.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-indent-a-comment.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-in-out-macros-indent-switch-case.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-a-few-spaces-from-function-casts.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-macro-lock_fdc.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-add-debug_dcl-macro.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-clearf-setf-and-testf-macros.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-most-uses-of-call-and-ecall-macros.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-copyin-copyout-and-ecall-macros.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-macros-call-wait-and-iwait.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-convert-int-1-0-to-bool-true-false.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-move-leading-and-to-preceding-line.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-define-device_name-floppy.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-convert-int-initialising-to-bool-initialized.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-add-function-is_ready_state.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-return-and-braces.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-repeat-macro.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-unclutter-redo_fd_request-logic.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-argument-from-reschedule_timeout.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-define-floppy_sanity_check.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-dprint-neatening.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-use-__func__-where-appropriate.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-use-%pf-in-logging-messages.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-some-unnecessary-casting.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-convert-raw_cmd_copyin-from-while1-to-label-goto.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-add-__func__-to-debugt.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-obfuscating-code2size-macro.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-misleading-used-once-fd_ioctl_allowed-macro.patch
drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-casting-in-fd_ioctl.patch
documentation-remove-obsolete-voyagertxt-file.patch
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