From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Earle R. Nietzel" Subject: Re: SMP Issues with IBM X Series 230 eServer Model 61Y Date: 14 Aug 2002 19:50:50 +0200 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1029347451.933.5.camel@pc> References: <000f01c24305$97cf06e0$4400a8c0@Eric> <1029269799.21007.96.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1029269799.21007.96.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:16, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 21:11, Eric Webber wrote: > > Linux version 2.4.7-10smp (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc > > version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 > > 17:09:31 EDT 2001 > > You should update to the current Red Hat errata kernel. We put them out > for a reason 8) > > > WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE, contact > > linux-smp@vger.kernel.org if you experience SMP problems! > > This is ok by RH 7.1 (its a boot loader issue with old bootloaders). We > really ought to kill the message nowdays > I completely agree on this... I've been on this list for a long time and this message has caused a lot of emails but I can't recall any of them where the EBDA was ever written to during boot. > > > mtrr: your processor doesn't support write-combining > > and this is because you have a serverworks OSB4 - and is fine. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html