[parisc-linux] SMP (in)stability

[Jeremy Drake]

After having read on this list that some SMP-related problems were fixed,
I decided to try out the latest kernel as SMP on my J5k.  I tried my old
test, apt-get update, on it.  It downloaded the package lists fine, but
stopped after printing "Reading Package Lists... 0%".  Since I was running
over an ssh session, I don't have any console log messages that may have
appeared, but every time before this (on older smp kernels) it has stopped
at an unaligned access message.  As a point of reference, the last smp 
kernel that was stable for me was 2.4.17-32-smp in debian.  There was an 
updated version of it that was not stable, the stable one was the release 
before (if the box was up, I could get more info from the .deb I grabbed 
of it).  Hopefully that info will help you figure out what change was 
likely to have caused the problems.  I'll get you specifics on that kernel 
package tomorrow.

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