From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cliff Larsen Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:18:47 +0000 Subject: RE: [PATCH] make INIT# handler call panic Message-Id: <1100193526.16960.245.camel@clarsen> List-Id: References: <1099662943.913.180.camel@clarsen> In-Reply-To: <1099662943.913.180.camel@clarsen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:14, Luck, Tony wrote: > You could change the call to ia64_sal_set_vectors in ia64_mca_init > to point all cpus to just one routine (pass pointer to the same > routine for monarch/slave) ... and then have the OS init code > handle the serialization. That would work on both correct and > buggy SAL implementations. > > -Tony Certainly true. Do you have any sense of how widespread the problem is? Being relatively new to Itanium and having just a SR870BH2 to work with, I'm wondering whether such a workaround would be generally useful. -- Cliff Larsen