Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:56:17 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override |
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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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