> I just tried Ingo's patch[1] on a 2.6.25-rc2 kernel with printk timestamps
> turned on ... and it booted just fine on my tiger4. The default path
> for non-boot cpus is from head.S to start_secondary(), and that
> calls cpu_init() pretty quickly. There shouldn't normally[2] be any
> printk() calls on the non-boot cpu before it is safe to do so.
Hmm, current git + Ingo's patch still hangs on boot on my system
("Hitachi Cold Fusion-3e 2S4U" according to DMI).
- R.
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