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<p>Using maple_defconfig with latest 2.6.16 prepatch versions, when SMP is not configured the kernel hangs in smp_release_cpus() in kernel/setup_64.c <br>
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<font face="Courier New">...</font><br>
<font face="Courier New">returning from prom_init</font><br>
<font face="Courier New">Page orders: linear mapping = 24, others = 12</font><br>
<font face="Courier New">Found initrd at 0xc0000000018fa000:0xc000000001b2c3c5</font><br>
<font face="Courier New">DART: table not allocated, using direct DMA</font><br>
<font face="Courier New">Found legacy serial port 0 for /ht@0/isa@4/serial@3f8</font><br>
<font face="Courier New"> port=3f8, taddr=f40003f8, irq=ffffffffffffffff, clk=1843200, speed=115200</font><br>
<font face="Courier New">Found legacy serial port 1 for /ht@0/isa@4/serial@2f8</font><br>
<font face="Courier New"> port=2f8, taddr=f40002f8, irq=ffffffffffffffff, clk=1843200, speed=115200</font><br>
<font face="Courier New"> -> smp_release_cpus()</font><br>
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<tt> #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)<br>
void smp_release_cpus(void)<br>
{</tt><br>
<tt> ...</tt><br>
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Unconfiguring KEXEC does allow the boot to complete successfully<tt><br>
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Steve Winiecki</body></html>