Re: Linux v2.6.16

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, it's being mirrored out right now, the git tree should already be all 
> there, the tar-file and patches are still uploading.
> Not a lot of changes since -rc6, but there's various random one-liners 
> here and there (a number of Coverity bugs found, for example), and there 
> are small MIPS and PowerPC updates.
> Appended is the shortlog from 2.6.16-rc6, the full log (from 2.6.15) is on 
> the web/ftp-sites. 
>
> It looks like both Fedora and SuSE end up using a kernel that is pretty 
> close to this 2.6.16 release, so let's all hope it's good. Give it a good 
> testing, please,
I've just noticed some strange error messages that were printed during 
boot but don't seem to have any adverse effects when running.
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] 
lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 20

### First CPU seen.

Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] 
lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 20

### Second CPU seen.

Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl 
lint[0x1])
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl 
lint[0x1])
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] 
address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 20, 
address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 
global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 
global_irq 9 dfl dfl)
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 
I/O APICs
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: More than 8 CPUs detected and 
CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it.
### No more CPUs seen but something in there thinks there's more than 8 
of them.
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH or 
CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP.
Mar 22 16:10:31 heathwren kernel: Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP 
configuration information
Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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