This is still mysterious, because no other platform sees this problem. You need to first determine why other platforms bootup properly on SMP and only sparc32 does not. This is the first question every scheduler hacker is going to ask you when you propose that strange patch you just posted. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html