On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:37:36PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Mohan Kumar M writes: > > > To overcome this problem, I have created the patch, which > > checks for the condition if the machine is ppc970 based and maxcpus > > kernel parameter is specified. If the condition is met, the default > > distribution server is assigned to be current boot cpu instead of > > assigning from the gserver#s property. > > It feels hacky to be basing this sort of thing on the PVR. I would > like to understand the real problem better. Is it that we are > sometimes setting default_distrib_server to point to a CPU which is > not running? If so, why and how? Is this something that is specific > to the firmware on IBM 970-based blade systems? Is there in fact a > firmware bug that this works around? Why don't we see it on non-970 > based systems? >
Yes, It may be related to firmware issue also. I am trying to upgrade my JS20 box with the latest firmware. I will test this case after a successful firmware upgrade and update you with the results. Regards, Mohan. > Paul. _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
