Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> Got the following general protection fault while running
> xfs-1.0.2 + linux2.4.14 + preempt patch.
FYI, I just found out about the pre-empt patch at a recent MontaVista
seminar. I already knew about the RTLinux/RTAI approaches, and
partially understood what changes Linus made in 2.4 to give MP per-CPU
threading (since I prefer dual-CPU on the desktop ;-), but I didn't know
about the patch to apply this to uP until then.
So it makes me wonder if and when we might start seeing distros shipping
at least one i686 kernel (if not i386, i586, athlon, etc... as well)
with the pre-empt patch applied. You'd figure they could handle
enabling/disabling with some compiler directives, eh? [ NOTE: I
haven't looked at the patch myself ]
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