# Re: \[UPDATED PATCH 21/27\] sparc32, smpboot: Use generic SMP booting infrastructure

- From: David Miller \<davem@davemloft.net\>
- Date: 2012-06-01 22:53:47 
- List: linux-arch
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arch/2012/06/3873469
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arch/2012/06/3873118/t.md

```text
From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <redacted>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:17:47 +0530

> 
> Convert sparc32 to use the generic framework to boot secondary CPUs.
> 
> Notes:
> While removing the call to cpu_idle(), we can also remove the call to
> cpu_panic() because we are calling BUG() in the generic code anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <redacted>

Almost there, but not quite yet.

You can't get rid of the cpu_panic invocations, those have to be there
after the *_callin calls to catch if they accidently return.
```