From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:00:59 -0400 Received: from CPE-203-51-29-62.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.51.29.62]:7809 "EHLO wagner.rustcorp.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:00:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:04:30 +1000 From: Rusty Russell To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: , torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 boot enhancements Message-Id: <20020506180430.16bdee45.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02 May 2002 08:23:26 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > My patches to build improve the x86 boot process are now > available at: > ftp://download.lnxi.com/pub/src/linux-kernel-patches/boot/index.html > http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/boot/index.html > There is one summary patch and the rest are incremental patches, > not significant changes have been made. Hi Eric, I've been working on the hotplug CPU stuff: Linus asked that it alter the boot process to "hotplug in" CPUs on the way up. I have some (usually-working) patches for x86, but they conflict with your work. Just a heads up... Cheers! Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy