On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:23:54PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Hmmm. I may have answered at least part of my question. It appears that the boot cpu > > cannot exit back to the SAL slave loop since it was never in the slave loop to start with. > > > > This will take some thought..... More later. > > Yes. cpu0 is a special case as there is no way to return it to SAL. > Linux hotplug code has a hack where we borrow the return details from > some other cpu in the case that someone wants to take cpu0 offline. > Will this work for Altix? Would we have to be careful to get the > return details from some other cpu on the same node? > > -Tony Interesting idea. We might be able to make this work. It looks like we need to make some changes to our BIOS to make this work but it looks possible. I'll investigate this some more..... -- jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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