Subject: Re: SMP on 9500MP
From: Mark Jaffe (wizards@wizdev.net)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 18:52:37 MST
On 11/10/01 5:30 PM, "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 3:11 PM -0800 11/10/01, Kjell Konis wrote:
>> Maybe I don't know how to interpret this (actually, I don't know how to
>> interpret this) but it doesn't seem to be showing 2 processors. Also, in
>> dmesg I found
>>
>> ...
>> Entering SMP Mode...
>> Processor 1 is stuck.
>> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
>> All processors have done init_idle
>> ...
>>
>> What does it mean for processor 1 to be stuck?
>
> Means that the kernel tried to start the second processor and failed.
>
> As I recall, you may have to use the quik bootloader rather than
> BootX to successfully use SMP on Power Surge Macs like the 9500MP.
> Alternatively, it might help to switch to an old version of MacOS
> since I think the BootX problem was caused by newer MacOS versions
> partially initializing the CPU in a manner which interferes with
> Linux.
Mine boots to YDL from OS 8.6, FWIW
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