Re: Make SMP x86-64 kernels boot on more UP systems.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 21:10:17 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:45:00AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 24 February 2006 02:41, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Should someone boot an SMP kernel on UP hardware on some systems,
> > strange things happen, such as..
> Boot logs?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=124341

> > SMP: Allowing 0 CPUs.
> >
> > We blow up shortly afterwards.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

revisiting the bug, I'm not 100% sure my patch was the actual
fix or just something cosmetic, as I changed other things
too in subsequent kernels. I'll get the user to double check it.

Dave

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