Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756061Ab0AFSGu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:06:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756053Ab0AFSGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:06:49 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:45043 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756033Ab0AFSGs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:06:48 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TmDeL4rtu4HcpzEtaVzwGKOoPUv/habD57P3uzP1rFRg/zFI7ftgENXZqIRPO72885 K9Fy/lyXLE+EdF3jM5WeT82U+wx1qmIJC6xHDWWcJAWAuGY6NuA8sVxYMj5d6fnQwVfA EgcP3l6Ci4L10ph6PpnbSIUStLSzibkjI+WEI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100106185913.39003329@neptune.home> References: <20100106185913.39003329@neptune.home> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:06:46 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images displayed are side by side (should only show one). From: Miles Lane To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= Cc: LKML , David Airlie , Sylvain Meyer , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1258 Lines: 29 On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bruno Pr?mont wrote: > On Wed, 06 January 2010 Miles Lane wrote: >> For a long time I have gotten two pictures of Tux showing up when I >> include the Tux display option in my custom kernel builds. ?I don't >> know how many kernel revisions ago it was when I started noticing >> this. ?It seems like it might have been early in the 2.6 series >> kernels. > > Unless your system has exactly one CPU without hyperthreading and with > exactly one core this is the correct bahavior, one tux per logical CPU. > > If you just want a single tux you can run your kernel on a system with > only one logical CPU, boot it with maxcpus=1 or rebuild it with > CONFIG_SMP=n... though in those case you will not be able to benefit > from all of your CPU's resources.. > > Bruno Oh! Well, that explains it. That is truly weird functionality. Is Tux a de facto CPU presence indicator? It doesn't make any sense to me, if so. Miles -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/