Re: [PATCH: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5.8] support for NCR voyager (3/4/5xxx series)

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
17 Apr 2002 11:25:14 -0600


James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:

> This patch adds SMP (and UP) support for voyager which is an (up to 32 way)
> SMP microchannel non-PC architecture.
>
> The patch is in two parts: The i386 sub-architecture split is
> separated from the addition of the voyager components
>
> http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/arch-split-2.5.8.diff (269k)
> http://www.hansenpartnership.com/voyager/files/voyager-2.5.8.diff (150k)
>
> (The split diff is pretty huge because it's actually moving files about). You
> must apply the split diff before applying the voyager one.
>
> These two patches are also available as separate bitkeeper trees:
>
> http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/voyager-2.5
> http://linux-voyager.bkbits.net/arch-split-2.5

Currently you place the voyager information in the APM table, which is problematic
for the goal of being able to have a kernel that will support everything,
and it is a little confusing. There is still plenty of room for the voyager table,
elsewhere so I don't think that is needed.

Please check out include/asm-i386/boot_param.h for an enumeration of where
we actually put the variables. Since it hasn't made it into the kernel
yet either get out of the linux-kernel mailing list or at:
ftp://download.lnxi.com/pub/src/linux-kernel-patches/boot/linux-2.5.8.boot.diff

Eric
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