Re: [Mactel-linux-users] anyone running 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop

[Geoffrey <li...@se...>]

Justin P. mattock wrote:
> On 03/19/2010 04:29 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Ryan Schlesinger wrote:
>>> I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine.  Have you tried installing a
>>> newer kernel on 5.4?
>>
>> Yes.  Not only that, I even upgraded to the 5.5 beta, still no go.  As
>> you might expect, Centos 5 does the same thing.
>>
>>>
>>> On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
>>>> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook
>>>> pro 4,1.
>>>>
>>>> It only uses one of the two cpu cores.
>>>>
>>>> I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> odd, and in the .config there's CONFIG_SMP=y
> 
> Justin P. Mattock

It's apparently something to do with not recognizing the motherboard as 
supporting smp, which makes no sense, because 32 bit did.  From boot:

Mar 19 06:51:01 mac kernel: SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP motherboard not detected.
Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP disabled


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Until later, Geoffrey

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