[parisc-linux] Re: [DOC] Linux

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:23:58AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2004 6:49 am, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:40:11AM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > > > +       Superdome will need some additional work.
> > > 
> > > Superdome, if ever supported, will not be supported as a "Superdome"
> > > system, but as separate units, as far as I've been told. The same goes
> > > for 742/743 VME boards that works standalone.
> > 
> > I think that's incorrect.  Superdome works as a big SMP box.
> 
> I thought Superdome needed the kmap trick to deal with the fact
> that it doesn't do non-equivalent aliasing quite right.  Or maybe
> that's already been done?

Right, that's the "some additional work" ;-) Thibaut was talking about
decomposing a superdome into a cluster of 4-way SMPs, I think.

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