From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: jmoyer@redhat.com, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: finding out the boot cpu number from userspace
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:42:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091468548.810.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30660000.1091467382@[10.10.2.4]>
On Llu, 2004-08-02 at 18:23, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Eric went to some lengths to migrate us back to the original boot CPU
> before kexec'ing. I think this is unnecessary - the new kernel should
> handle booting on any CPU just fine (there was a panic in there at one
> point if the boot CPU didn't match the BIOS's spec'ed one, but I removed
> it).
Several systems have broken SMM or BIOS functionality that requires the
*real* boot processor is used. The panic was correct and should be
restored. See apm_power_off() for one example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-02 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-02 12:16 finding out the boot cpu number from userspace Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-02 13:37 ` Dave Jones
2004-08-02 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-02 14:30 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-08-02 14:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-02 15:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-02 16:58 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-08-02 17:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-02 17:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-02 18:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-02 18:23 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-02 20:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
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