From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264376AbTKMSEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:04:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264382AbTKMSEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:04:46 -0500 Received: from dd1234.kasserver.com ([81.209.148.157]:20436 "EHLO dd1234.kasserver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264376AbTKMSEo (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:04:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:04:42 +0000 From: Jochen Voss To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: invalid SMP mptable on Toshiba Satellite 2430-301 Message-ID: <20031113180442.GA2161@seehuhn.de> References: <20031113112740.GA4719@seehuhn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:40:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Herbert Xu produced a patch, which converts the crash into an error > > message, so the symptoms are cured for me. >=20 > Ok. That panic is obviously crud from a lazy initial developer, and yes,= =20 > it's always silly (and very very wrong) to crash if you can just continue. >=20 > Can you send the (tested) patch over? Herbert sent it to the list (Subject: [i386] Remove bogus panic calls in mpparse.c). You can find the corresponding message under http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.1/0879.html > I really think that the Linux behaviour i smore of a bug than the BIOS=20 > behaviour. There's no excuse for panicing just because some signature=20 > for a data block that we don't even strictly need isn't there. With the patch the crash goes away, but I get the error message BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!... ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor) now. I guess that means no hyperthreading for me :-( Jochen --=20 http://seehuhn.de/ --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s8e6f+iD8yEbECURAnYGAKCnE0vcyvs4/qOSh40kicEPoCh+IwCggtKq NtZ1jS9Gh2FW3UFgNbPvVo4= =cfLR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--