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DateSun, 30 Dec 2007 12:56:17 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> BTW: The error function in
>> linux-2.6.23/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c uses while(1) without
>> cpu_relax() in order to halt the machine. Is this fixed? Should it be
>> fixed?
>
> this is early bootup so there's no need to be "nice" to other cores or
> sockets - none of them are really running.
>

It probably should actually HLT, to avoid sucking power, and stressing
the thermal system. We're dead at this point, and the early 486's which
had problems with HLT will lock up - we don't care.

-hpa


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