Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device

[danny]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2003 01:36 pm, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote:
> > > On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club,
> > > version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as
> > > before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is
> > > correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?).
> >
> > Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm.  cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different
> > on ppc than x86.
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> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu             : 7455, altivec supported
> clock           : 866MHz
> revision        : 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201)
> bogomips        : 865.07
> machine         : PowerMac3,6
> motherboard     : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
> board revision  : 00000000
> detected as     : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel)
> pmac flags      : 00000000
> L2 cache        : 256K unified
> memory          : 256MB
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
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> Hmmmmmmmm............... !

that's strange. Either that machine is weird or my kernel is broke. Anyone 
else tried the club kernel on an smp machine?
An update for the benh kernel is long overdue anyway, i have 2.4.22-ben2 
sitting here, but i still need to redo the xfs patch, hopefully i get some 
time this week.

 d.

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