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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:19 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Could we document the core boot strap procedure some more? I think we will
> have slight breakage in various parts if we change the order. If we had
> some design to guide then it may be easier to bring all the components in
> order.

Hmm. I am avoiding all the hard issues by letting all the architecture
specific early boot code run before I set up the kernel memory
allocators. The only thing that changes order is init_IRQ() which should
be fine.

			Pekka