From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:36:25 +0200 > I noticed when I made a new kernel for my x86 that there > was an option for hot swappable CPU's. But this didn't exist > on SPARC... ? > > I just acquired an Sun Enterprise 3000, and I think I read something > about hot swappable CPU's (?) or at least hot swappable something... > > Something about the machine could continue running even if hardware > failed... > > I wanted to try out this on Linux (the manual only referred to Solaris > - surprise surprise :). We don't support cpu hot swapping. Hot swapping a board on an enterprise system is no cake walk, in fact you have to jumpstart the board with JTAG scans and things of that nature. It's a lot of work, and as these systems get older and older the incentive to do this kind of work diminishes. Sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
