Kernel for SMP VIA C3 machines

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:46:21PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
 > I have a couple of VT310-DP boards (together in a little 1U case,
 > nice) and found that FC-5 won't do SMP on them.  (The i686 kernels
 > won't run on this chip.)

really ? I was under the impression that all the SMP capable C3's
were Nehemiah cores, which are 686 capable.

 > What's the cleanest way to add an i586-smp (or better yet, MVIAC3_2-smp)
 > build target to the existing kernel SRPM?  Currently I'm working from
 > Fedora CVS (FC-5 branch) which looks like it has reorganized the
 > config generation a bit.

cp configs/config-i586 configs/config-i586-smp
echo CONFIG_SMP=y >> configs/config-i586-smp
edit Makefile.config and add a stanza for your new i586-smp (mostly cut-n-pasting the 586 one
 but change the filename)
add the 586-smp config to the kernel-2.6.spec sources: list

that should be it, unless I've forgotten something.

		Dave

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