From thingi1 at gmail.com Sun May 4 18:05:07 2008 From: thingi1 at gmail.com (thingi) Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 19:05:07 +0100 Subject: [armedslack] SMP? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, I'm just about to buy a 32gb compact flash card and ide adaptor for my RiscPC so I can install armedslack and have a machine without a spinning hdd :-) What I'd really like to know is if anyone is using a RiscPC with dual StrongArm's? Is the current ARMedslack kernel SMP aware? Will my RiscPC even boot with two StrongArms in (not bought it yet but have easy access to one). Steve (a.k.a thingi) From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Mon May 5 16:13:47 2008 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:13:47 +0100 (BST) Subject: [armedslack] SMP? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi > I'm just about to buy a 32gb compact flash card and ide adaptor for my > RiscPC so I can install armedslack and have a machine without a spinning > hdd :-) Hmmm. I'll be interested to see if it works! Off the top of my head, I'm not sure whether the RiscPC kernel would contain support for such a device -- although if it's just IDE, it most likely will work. Still, if you're looking for a noise-free machine, I hope you remembered the 2ft long PSU ;-) > What I'd really like to know is if anyone is using a RiscPC with dual > StrongArm's? Is the current ARMedslack kernel SMP aware? Will my RiscPC even > boot with two StrongArms in (not bought it yet but have easy access to one). The RiscPC doesn't support SMP -- the second slot is for an x86 card -- for which there is no Linux support. So unfortunately, it won't work -- I wish it would though, it'd be cool :) From thingi1 at gmail.com Tue May 6 14:29:09 2008 From: thingi1 at gmail.com (thingi) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:29:09 +0100 Subject: [armedslack] SMP? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <24401545-71C3-436C-8CB1-A31822C0C9F0@gmail.com> On May 5, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > Hi > >> I'm just about to buy a 32gb compact flash card and ide adaptor for >> my >> RiscPC so I can install armedslack and have a machine without a >> spinning >> hdd :-) > > Hmmm. I'll be interested to see if it works! Off the top of > my head, I'm not sure whether the RiscPC kernel would contain > support for such a device -- although if it's just IDE, it > most likely will work. Still, if you're looking for a noise-free > machine, > I hope you remembered the 2ft long PSU ;-) hehe.... You should have heard the noise the 1Gb HDD used to make, it was even louder the the PSU! >> What I'd really like to know is if anyone is using a RiscPC with dual >> StrongArm's? Is the current ARMedslack kernel SMP aware? Will my >> RiscPC even >> boot with two StrongArms in (not bought it yet but have easy access >> to one). > > The RiscPC doesn't support SMP -- the second slot is for > an x86 card -- for which there is no Linux support. > So unfortunately, it won't work -- I wish it would though, it'd be > cool :) > I been doing some research and the RiscPC is SMP capable! I remember that there was a 'hydra' card available that allowed an additional four StrongArm's but obviously they were pretty much wasted under RiscOS. After a little bit of googling I've found out that any ARM chip (including StrongArm's) could be plugged into a Hydra but there was some additional arbitration logic on the actual hydra card which means I can't just pug an additional StrongArm into my machine.......I wonder what that additional logic was? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Mon May 12 08:26:33 2008 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:26:33 +0100 (BST) Subject: [armedslack] SMP? In-Reply-To: <24401545-71C3-436C-8CB1-A31822C0C9F0@gmail.com> References: <24401545-71C3-436C-8CB1-A31822C0C9F0@gmail.com> Message-ID: > I been doing some research and the RiscPC is SMP capable! I remember that > there was a 'hydra' card available that allowed an additional four StrongArm's > but obviously they were pretty much wasted under RiscOS. After a little bit of > googling I've found out that any ARM chip (including StrongArm's) could be > plugged into a Hydra but there was some additional arbitration logic on the > actual hydra card which means I can't just pug an additional StrongArm into my > machine.......I wonder what that additional logic was? Well, the thing is that whatever it was, the hardware would need to be supported by Linux. If you want to support it, go ahead! -- but there are other things to fix first ;-) -- Stuart Winter www.armedslack.org