Re: PROBLEM: [2.4.6] kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!

Manfred H. Winter (mahowi@gmx.net)
Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:58:47 +0200


On Thu, 05 Jul 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:32:00PM +0800, Thibaut Laurent wrote:
> > And the winner is... Andrea. Kudos to you, I've just applied these patches,
> > recompiled and it seems to work fine.
> > Too bad, this was the perfect excuse for getting rid of those good old Cyrix
> > boxen ;)
>
> As Andrea's patches don't actually fix anything Cyrix related it's obvious
> that they just avoid the real bug instead of fixing it.
> It's a very useful datapoint though.

For me, it works with just swapping around these two lines

time_init();
softirq_init();

in init/main.c. Thanks, Andrew, for this tip.

Bye,

Manfred

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