Subject: Re: SMP Pentium 133Mhz
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/21/2007 13:27:32
At Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:53:29 +0200,
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> 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?

I killed the panic().

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Rui Paulo