Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] panic when booting Intel XXPRESS SMP boards | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:35:47 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'd love to have somebody (yes, you) look at the actual MP table and see > if there is something special with the XXPRESS bus, but in the end even if > we don't know a bus we're better off always just mentioning the fact > ("Unknown bus XXXX") and going on with our life. Maybe the system won't > work simply becasue we won't find any critical devices off the bus, but if > we panic we _know_ that it won't work, so..
By way of comment to back that up - 2.2 has been booted on boxes with both xpress bus (works fine) and corollary cbus (panics cleanly unable to find devices) so I think printking a warning and carrying on is a good choice
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