Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:04:42 +0000 | From | Jochen Voss <> | Subject | Re: invalid SMP mptable on Toshiba Satellite 2430-301 |
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:40:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Herbert Xu produced a patch, which converts the crash into an error > > message, so the symptoms are cured for me. > > Ok. That panic is obviously crud from a lazy initial developer, and yes, > it's always silly (and very very wrong) to crash if you can just continue. > > Can you send the (tested) patch over?
Herbert sent it to the list (Subject: [i386] Remove bogus panic calls in mpparse.c). You can find the corresponding message under
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.1/0879.html
> I really think that the Linux behaviour i smore of a bug than the BIOS > behaviour. There's no excuse for panicing just because some signature > for a data block that we don't even strictly need isn't there.
With the patch the crash goes away, but I get the error message
BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!... ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)
now. I guess that means no hyperthreading for me :-(
Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |