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SubjectRe: Linux loading Linux
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:48:30AM +0100, almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
> Erik Arjan Hendriks wrote:
> > A limitation right now is that it doesn't handle reboots of SMP boxes.
> > That seems pretty hairy.
>
> Hmm, what exactly goes wrong ? Do you hang while waiting for an interrupt
> (e.g. in BogoMIPS calibration) or do you crash on parsing the SMP tables ?
> See ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/misc/bootimg-8.tar.gz for how
> you can solve the latter. (Actually, using the IO APIC on UP may already
> do the trick - need to check.)

I haven't looked into it at all yet since I had no idea what the boot
up state of CPUs in a multi-cpu box should be. I mentioned it there
because it was clear to me that I would run into trouble with my
existing code if I tried it blindly :) Alan Cox just pointed me at the
right spec document, so I'll be trying it real soon now.

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