Re: [PATCH][RFC] exception processing in early boot

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 15:34:16 EST



> Andi, if you remove the HLT here, some CPUs will spin at full speed. This
> is nasty during boot because some of them might not have enabled their
> fans yet for instance

That would be a severe bug in the platform. Basically always the fans are managed
by SMM code.

-Andi
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