Xen SMP bug + workaround

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:30:56PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > today's Xen RPM is broken, in that it doesn't boot on SMP
> > systems and/or systems with HT CPUs.  The obvious workaround
> > is to boot xen with 'nosmp'.
> 
> This isn't new breakage, is it?  I haven't been able to boot my dual
> PIII test box with Xen for a while now...  (Of course I hadn't thought
> of "nosmp", which works as expected.)

Indeed, it's been broken for a bit, I just hadn't noticed
it yet.  We're still tracking down the source, once the bug
is fixed you'll see it in the rawhide report ;)

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