linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images displayed are side by side (should only show one).

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Message-ID: <a44ae5cd1001061006i63579096me4d598b06cc358f9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:06:46 -0500
From:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
To:	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@...ldonline.fr>,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc3 -- Intel 945GME (inteldrmfb) -- Two Tux images 
	displayed are side by side (should only show one).

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Bruno Prémont
<bonbons@...ux-vserver.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 January 2010 Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com> 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
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