re: upgrading from old 2.4.x to 5.0.x

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, matthew green wrote:
> 
> >
> > plain GENERIC should work fine if the system has multiple CPUs.
> > if that fails, please file a PR or at least show some more info?
> >
> > anyone want to help look at the SMP problem?
> 
> Sorry for the ultra-long delay with this. Finally I have the target 
> machine running again so I'm going to investigate more about upgrading it. 
> If need be I can take out a CPU module and run with a single module. That 
> will save quite a bit of power too which is good for my electricity bill. 
> 8-)

that's OK.  port-sparc moves about as fast as old sparc machines 
these days.. :)


.mrg.