Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: finding out the boot cpu number from userspace | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:42:29 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2004-08-02 at 18:23, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Eric went to some lengths to migrate us back to the original boot CPU > before kexec'ing. I think this is unnecessary - the new kernel should > handle booting on any CPU just fine (there was a panic in there at one > point if the boot CPU didn't match the BIOS's spec'ed one, but I removed > it).
Several systems have broken SMM or BIOS functionality that requires the *real* boot processor is used. The panic was correct and should be restored. See apm_power_off() for one example.
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