From: Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.elte.hu>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booting SMP P6 kernel on P4 hangs.
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:08:17 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108061605560.3733-100000@alloc.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010806161212.14836C-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Mark Hemment wrote:
>
> > The problem is the MP table contains no configuration blocks, and a zero
> > local APIC address. I've attached the full boot messages.
> >
> > The work around is trap that there are no config blocks, and fall back
> > to UP. Patch attached.
>
> The following patch should be better -- all the handling is performed at
> the table parsing stage as it should. Could you please test it? It
> applies to -ac7 cleanly as well.
I can't test it at the moment (machine in the States - me in the UK),
but looking at the check against a NULL local APIC address it will trap
the case on the reported box.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-06 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-31 6:10 Tigran Aivazian
2001-07-31 17:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-01 9:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-08-01 9:47 ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-08-01 11:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-08-02 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 14:00 ` john slee
2001-08-02 14:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-03 9:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 8:50 ` Steffen Persvold
2001-08-01 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-02 0:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-03 10:48 ` Mark Hemment
2001-08-06 14:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-08-06 15:08 ` Mark Hemment [this message]
2001-07-31 10:45 Mikael Pettersson
2001-08-01 16:00 Petr Vandrovec
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