On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note that then we should move the panic to the irq routing part (ie
> MPBIOS_trigger() and MPBIOS_polarity friends). Although right now we have
> just a printk() there, and I think I'd prefer it that way. Maybe just make
> it bigger letters..
OK, I've
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Jean-Marc: feel free to send me the output of `dmesg -s 32768' as I
> outlined in the previous mail -- I'll study it after the next week (or
> immediately, if you somehow manage it to be delivered in a few minutes ;-)
> ).
Too bad, I was already
> I'd love to have somebody (yes, you) look at the actual MP table and see
> if there is something special with the XXPRESS bus, but in the end even if
> we don't know a bus we're better off always just mentioning the fact
> ("Unknown bus ") and going on with our life. Maybe the system won't
>
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > I think we must panic() for an unknown bus that has an I/O APIC interrupt
> > routed from that is marked as "conforming to the bus spec" in the MP
> > table. Trying to assume any de
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> I think we must panic() for an unknown bus that has an I/O APIC interrupt
> routed from that is marked as "conforming to the bus spec" in the MP
> table. Trying to assume any defaults is unsafe and is not any better --
> we may guess them upon
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm doing an alternative patch that just igores unknown buses, because
> paniccing is definitely the wrong answer for anything but some early
> debugging ("did I catch all the relevant cases?").
I think we must panic() for an unknown bus that has an I
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> While you may surely use your patch for now, I don't think it's good as a
> general solution. I think we should either handle all busses (some of
> them were never actually used for i386 machines) or leave the code as is.
> By handling of all
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Saffroy wrote:
> We have here an older SMP machine (NCR Globalyst S40, quad Pentium 100)
> with an Intel Xtended Xpress (or XXPRESS) motherboard, and all development
> kernels since 2.3.20 don't boot with SMP on it, because they panic when
> they discover a bus type
Hello,
We have here an older SMP machine (NCR Globalyst S40, quad Pentium 100)
with an Intel Xtended Xpress (or XXPRESS) motherboard, and all development
kernels since 2.3.20 don't boot with SMP on it, because they panic when
they discover a bus type they don't know ("XPRESS") when parsing the bu
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