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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Tom Long Nguyen <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: PCI MSI breaks when booting with nosmp
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:09:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421210909.GC21028@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804212248.02986.jdelvare@suse.de>

> Both call disable_ioapic_setup(), so how can they not be the same?

See Jesse's explanation. Basically there is special code in the smp 
boot up to handle 0 CPUs and it disables all APICs.

This is very old and crufty and somewhat obsolete logic,
but it is like that.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17 19:40 PCI MSI breaks when booting with nosmp Jean Delvare
2008-04-17 20:08 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-17 20:25   ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-21 17:43     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-21 18:45       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-21 19:06         ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-21 19:35           ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-21 19:41           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-21 19:43         ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 19:44           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-22 21:25             ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-22 23:07               ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-21 20:20         ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-21 20:40           ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-21 20:46           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-21 20:48             ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-21 21:09               ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-21 21:14                 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-22 13:27                   ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-22 15:50                     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-23 14:38                   ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-23 15:12                     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-23 18:13                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-04-23 18:23                         ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-23 18:32                           ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-23 18:32                           ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-23 18:38                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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