On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note that then we should move the panic to the irq routing part (ie
> MPBIOS_trigger() and MPBIOS_polarity friends). Although right now we have
> just a printk() there, and I think I'd prefer it that way. Maybe just make
> it bigger letters..
OK, I've
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Jean-Marc: feel free to send me the output of `dmesg -s 32768' as I
> outlined in the previous mail -- I'll study it after the next week (or
> immediately, if you somehow manage it to be delivered in a few minutes ;-)
> ).
Too bad, I was already
> 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 ") and going on with our life. Maybe the system won't
>
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > I think we must panic() for an unknown bus that has an I/O APIC interrupt
> > routed from that is marked as "conforming to the bus spec" in the MP
> > table. Trying to assume any de
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> I think we must panic() for an unknown bus that has an I/O APIC interrupt
> routed from that is marked as "conforming to the bus spec" in the MP
> table. Trying to assume any defaults is unsafe and is not any better --
> we may guess them upon
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm doing an alternative patch that just igores unknown buses, because
> paniccing is definitely the wrong answer for anything but some early
> debugging ("did I catch all the relevant cases?").
I think we must panic() for an unknown bus that has an I
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> While you may surely use your patch for now, I don't think it's good as a
> general solution. I think we should either handle all busses (some of
> them were never actually used for i386 machines) or leave the code as is.
> By handling of all
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Saffroy wrote:
> We have here an older SMP machine (NCR Globalyst S40, quad Pentium 100)
> with an Intel Xtended Xpress (or XXPRESS) motherboard, and all development
> kernels since 2.3.20 don't boot with SMP on it, because they panic when
> they discover a bus type
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