[PATCH] one liner to adhere to MP1.4 specifications

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:01:42 +0200 (SAST)


Diffed against 2.4.15-pre6, changes the MP flointing pointer
struct scanning from the whole 4k of the EBDA to only the first k as
specified in the MP1.4 spec sheets.

Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo

diff -urb linux-2.4.15-pre6-orig/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c linux-2.4.15-pre6-zm/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
--- linux-2.4.15-pre6-orig/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c Sun Nov 18 15:18:05 2001
+++ linux-2.4.15-pre6-zm/arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c Tue Nov 20 11:46:20 2001
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@

address = *(unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(0x40E);
address <<= 4;
- smp_scan_config(address, 0x1000);
+ smp_scan_config(address, 0x400);
if (smp_found_config)
printk(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE, contact linux-smp@vger.kernel.org if you experience SMP problems!\n");
}

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