[coreboot] MP table multicore patch

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 20:42:00 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>wrote:

> On 2/16/10 5:11 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > Here is a cleaned up and tested version of the SMP APIC autodetect patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Timothy Pearson <tpearson at raptorengineeringinc.com>
>


> And, can you describe high level, what the patch changes? It looks to me
> as if you are recursing through the tree instead of just walking the
> "all_devices" list.
> So this implies that you don't catch all devices when running through
> all_devices. This sounds like a problem in the resource allocator and
> maybe it should be fixed there instead?
>
I don't understand why this would be a resource allocator problem.  Aren't
we talking about the device tree?

Maybe the real problem is related to the memory corruption seen with printk?

Thanks,
Myles
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