Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:34:16 +0200 | Subject | Re: MTRR fix |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: >> >> Hi, Linus. I've appended a patch for 2.1.119 which fixes a problem >> reported by Tom Eastep (hard lockups when mtrr_add() is called in the >> console patch with SMP kernel). The problem was that IPIs were being >> used to distribute the MTRR changes, but smp_begin() had not yet been >> called. So now I queue the calls to mtrr_add() until smp_begin() has >> been called.
>I really think that it's the console patch that is broken. If it plays >with the MTRR's it should be part of the later "real" device >initialization (ie chrdev_init()) rather than called from console_init() >which happens early.
vesafb initialisation _is_ part of chrdev_init().
Gerd
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