On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > We put all but one cpu in tight loop in smp_pause, so that it can't > > > > > interfere. That's enough for STD, but not for STR. > > > > > > > > What goes wrong during STR? > > > > > > You'd have to boot secondary CPUs from real mode without touching > > > memory. Not easy. > > > > Don't you have that same problem with the primary CPU as well? Or to put > > it another way, why should secondary CPUs be any harder to handle than the > > primary? (Note: I know nothing about how SMP systems handle complex > > things like booting...) > > It is completely separate codepath, and I do not have easy access to > SMP system :-(. Neither do I... Alan Stern
