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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-06-13 16:29:25 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-06-13 16:29:25 +0000
commitdb7d4daea91e105e3859cf461d7e53b9b77454b2 (patch)
tree9bb65b95440af09e8aca63abe56970dd3360cc57 /Documentation/powerpc
parent9c1c01ead627bdda9211c9abd5b758d6c687d8ac (diff)
Merge with Linux 2.2.8.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/ppc_htab.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt11
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/ppc_htab.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/ppc_htab.txt
index 28555686d..31da0c286 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/ppc_htab.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/ppc_htab.txt
@@ -114,10 +114,5 @@ about the PTE hash table.
3. Bugs
- Doing a 'less' or 'more' on ppc_htab results in a segmentation violation.
- I'm not sure of the cause but in the mean time 'cat' works adequately for
- reading the file.
-
The PMC1 and PMC2 counters can overflow and give no indication of that
in /proc/ppc_htab.
-
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt
index e7b078e54..b79451562 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/smp.txt
@@ -5,11 +5,10 @@ This document and the related code was written by me
(Cort Dougan, cort@cs.nmt.edu) please email me if you have questions,
comments or corrections.
-Last Change: 10.8.98
+Last Change: 3.31.99
-SMP support for Linux/PPC is still in its early stages and likely to
-be buggy for a while. If you want to help by writing code or testing
-different hardware please email me!
+If you want to help by writing code or testing different hardware please
+email me!
1. State of Supported Hardware
@@ -29,3 +28,7 @@ different hardware please email me!
BeBox
BeBox support hasn't been added to the 2.1.X kernels from 2.0.X
but work is being done and SMP support for BeBox is in the works.
+
+ CHRP
+ CHRP SMP works and is fairly solid. It's been tested on the IBM F50
+ with 4 processors for quite some time now.