On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:17:02AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:06:33AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > From: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > commit 4047727e5ae33f9b8d2b7766d1994ea6e5ec2991 from upstream > > > > > > We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before > > > attempting to power-off modern SMP machines. This fixes the > > > hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's > > > new toybox. > > > > Paul Mackerras has reported crashes when rebooting some older ppc64 > > systems due to this patch. > > > > See http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-October/043969.html. > > Has anything been done in mainline to possibly fix this? > > If not, I think we'll leave it in, as it does solve a number of reported > problems. Wrapping it into a #ifdef CONFIG_X86 would be sufficient. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
