Re: 2.3 won't boot SMP on Intel PR440FX (broken since 2.3.20)

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 11:59:59 EST


On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> Ingo,
>
> This the same issue that I brought up at the 2.3.18->19 transistion.
> I have three BIOSes to pick from.
>
> NA8281 MPS 1.1 and pirq redirects correctly.
> NA7081 MPS 1.4 and pirq redirects correctly for 2.2.X -> 2.3.18.
> 2.3.19-> deadlock........
> DNFB031 MPS 1.1 and pirq redirects fail.

could you try and dissect patch-2.3.19 to find out which change causes
problems? There were no SMP changes in 2.3.19, but some PCI and e820
related changes. Probably it's useful to first isolate all arch/i386 and
include/asm-i386 and patch it on 2.3.18 and see wether it fails. Let me
know if you want me to send such separated patches, although i think it
can be done much better locally.

2.3.20 added the big 2.3 x86 SMP cleanup, so if it broke with patch-2.3.19
then the SMP code is not the first suspect i believe.

-- mingo

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