Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751386AbWH3Tg7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:36:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751375AbWH3Tg7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:36:59 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55969 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386AbWH3Tg7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:36:59 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] exception processing in early boot Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:36:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu, davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060830063932.GB289@1wt.eu> <200608302026.05968.ak@suse.de> <20060830190125.GA21041@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20060830190125.GA21041@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608302136.54624.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 521 Lines: 14 > Andi, if you remove the HLT here, some CPUs will spin at full speed. This > is nasty during boot because some of them might not have enabled their > fans yet for instance That would be a severe bug in the platform. Basically always the fans are managed by SMM code. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/