From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference in 2.6.10-mm1
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:44:06 -0800
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On Monday, January 3, 2005 11:50 am, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:13:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Without passing this parameter by reference, the changes to
> > used_node_mask are meaningless and do not affect the caller's copy.
> > This leads to boot-time failure. This proposed fix passes it by
> > reference.
>
> This proposed fix is an actual fix according to my own testing.
>
> Without the patch applied, my quad em64t does not boot, and livelocks
> prior to console_init().
>
> With the patch applied, my quad em64 boots and runs normally.

Makes my Altix boot as well.  Thanks for the fix.

Jesse
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