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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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Subject: 2 CPUs, but only one is used
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I have a dual G4 MDD mac running linux 2.6.19. When I boot with maxcpus=1 and
then I issue "echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" the second CPU is
put online without errors, but it stays idle+wait=100% and of course
user+system+nice=0%. It works fine without maxcpus=1. No problems with 2.6.18.

I saw that there are some cpu hotplug related changes in 2.6.19, but I have
no access to a non-ppc dual cpu box to check if the problem also affects
other architectures right now.


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Giuliano.