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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:53:04 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> Oh dear.  Most people only have two CPUs.
>>> Rusty, can we *please* fix this?  Really soon?

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 12:46, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'll post the panic triggered by lowering NR_CPUS shortly. There's
>> an ugly showstopping i386 arch code issue here.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:50:12PM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> In current 2.5?  I thought Andrew and I fixed all those issues and
> pushed them to Linus...
> The `configurable NR_CPUS' patch works fine for me.  I always boot with
> NR_CPUS=2.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to test in time, these things are slow to
boot and my testing bandwidth is limited. Please hold off until the
issue is resolved. You *will* prevent me from booting. IO-APIC APIC ID
reassignment panics. I'll follow up after this when the thing comes up
into the kernel exhibiting the problem.


Cheers,
Bill
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