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On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now > immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was > believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out > the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled. Which kernel version was that from? I only recall you mentioning it. > Congratulations rml! Indeed =) > If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long > way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the > preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap. > > All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right. I'm going to spend a bit of time generally trying to break things, we'll see what comes out of it. Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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