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SubjectRe: [patch, 2.6.10-rc2] floppy boot-time detection fix

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > (this does not solve the irq threading related SMP lockup though, i'm
> > attacking that problem next - now that my fd0 gets detected fine ;-) )
>
> in fact, i cannot reproduce the SMP lockup anymore and the floppy works
> just fine. [...]

it turns out that this was the side-effect of me doing idle=poll.

The reason for the lockup was a bug in the -RT patch, it broke
disable_hlt() which resulted in all CPUs spinning in idle with
interrupts disabled - with an obvious hard lockup as a result.
Fixed it in my tree.

Ingo
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