Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
>
>>I think this patch should keep the interrupts disabled until after
>>smp_commenced is set. It's partially tested: bochs boots until all cpus
>>are up and then crashes.
>>
>>
>
>This patch certainly cannot work: calibrate_delay() needs interrupts.
>
>
Not really. calibrate_delay needs interrupts on one cpu.
The boot cpu is still around, and spinning with enabled interrupts in
do_boot_cpu().
I haven't checked the irq routing, the timer must be fixed to the boot
cpu, otherwise my patch is unreliable/incomplete.
--
Manfred
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