Subject: Re: SMP Pentium 133Mhz
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/21/2007 08:53:29
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:21:39PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a dual pentium 133mhz and I'm having a problem (worked around)  
> booting NetBSD.
> I'm hitting the "lazy bum" panic in mpbios.c:
> http://opengrok.netbsd.org/source/xref/sys/arch/x86/x86/mpbios.c#554
> 
> My first try was to comment out the panic call and see what happens.  
> Guess what. The machine booted in SMP.
> So, can anyone clearly explain what is the panic() for ? What's the  
> reason of the /* XXX */ ?

Was this ever resolved?

	-is