Re: problems getting SMP to work with vanilla 2.4.26

[Len Brown]

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:05, Zack Brown wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> When booting vanilla 2.4.26 with SMP enabled, I get a lockup before
> the
> boot sequence is completed. The same kernel with SMP disabled boots
> and runs
> just fine. Both CPUs are detected by the system at bootup, before lilo
> takes
> over. Here's the error as I wrote it down from the screen, followed by
> the
> .config file:
> 
> ------------------------------ cut here ------------------------------
> Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> Calibrating APIC timer...
> ..... CPU clock speed is 1004.4785 MHZ
> ..... hostbus clock speed is 133.9304 MHz
> cpu: 0, clocks: 1339304, slice: 446434
> CPU0<T0:1339296,T1:892848,D:14,S:446434,C:1339304>
> cpu: 1, clocks: 1339304, slice: 446434
> CPU1<T0:1339296,T1:446416,D:12,S:446434,C:1339304>
> ------------------------------ cut here ------------------------------

complete dmesg from success case would help,
but try booting with "acpi=off", as that will
disable ACPI for CPU enumeration, and if there
is a bug in your ACPI tables, it would avoid it.

-Len


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