Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 13:11:03 EST



* Bodo Eggert <7eggert@xxxxxx> wrote:

> BTW: The error function in
> linux-2.6.23/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c uses while(1) without
> cpu_relax() in order to halt the machine. Is this fixed? Should it be
> fixed?

this is early bootup so there's no need to be "nice" to other cores or
sockets - none of them are really running.

Ingo
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