* 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.

	Ingo