05.01.2012, 23:27, "David Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:42:18 +0400 > >> I had this problem with OpenBIOS. Timers don't tick and kernel fails on >> QEMU, when it's compiled with SMP support. The path fixes problem. > > This means that OpenBIOS does not provide the hardware to the client > program in the same state that OpenFirmware does, which in my opinion > is a bug. > > We can still apply a patch like this, but I'd like to see it tested > on real hardware and OpenFirmware machines. I've just tested it on: cpu : Texas Instruments, Inc. - MicroSparc fpu : SuperSparc on-chip FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 prom : 2.12 type : sun4m ncpus probed : 4 ncpus active : 4 Cpu0Bogo : 498.07 Cpu1Bogo : 498.07 Cpu2Bogo : 498.07 Cpu3Bogo : 498.07 MMU type : TI Viking/MXCC contexts : 65536 nocache total : 5242880 nocache used : 1296384 State: CPU0 : online CPU1 : online CPU2 : online CPU3 : online It seems that everything is ok. Kirill -- 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
