Re: [patch] SMP fixes 2.2.1

Mark-Andre Hopf (hopf@informatik.uni-rostock.de)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:06:10 +0100 (MET)


Hello Ingo,

> > > hi Mark, does the attached patch (applied to vanilla 2.2.1) work?
> >
> > Yes and no...
>
> (is this my latest patch?)

No, this was the `18:57:46' patch. The `20:31:06' patch boots and fixes
the `gettimeofday' bug here. Well done. :)

[SMP failure to reboot]

> does it happen with the attached patch too? (we have a problem i
> did not want to solve until 2.3 but we might have to)
>
> Ingo
>
> --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c.orig Tue Dec 29 16:37:07 1998
> +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c Mon Feb 1 20:42:55 1999
> @@ -793,10 +799,12 @@
> */
> void init_pic_mode(void)
> {
> +#if 0
> printk("disabling symmetric IO mode... ");
> outb_p(0x70, 0x22);
> outb_p(0x00, 0x23);
> printk("...done.\n");
> +#endif
> }

This change doesn't solve the reboot failure `feature' on my system.

Bye,
Mark

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