From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, mikpe@csd.uu.se, m.c.p@wolk-project.de
Subject: Re: [patch 2.4 1/2] backport 2.6 x86 cpu capabilities
Date: 10 Aug 2003 19:59:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060559943.948.121.camel@cube> (raw)
Mikael Pettersson writes:
> 2.4.21-rc1 with NCAPINTS==6 hangs at boot in the local
> APIC timer calibration step; before that it detected a
> 0MHz bus clock and the local APIC NMI watchdog was stuck.
> Correcting head.S:X86_VENDOR_ID fixes these problems.
>
> Without correcting head.S:X86_VENDOR_ID, head.S will store
> the vendor id partly in the capabilities array. This breaks
> both the capabilities and the vendor id. I can't say why 2.6
> works, but obviously the CPU setup code has changed since 2.4.
I may be stating the obvious, but in case not...
If Jeff Garzik missed this, others will too. I hope
that a big comment gets added in both places, assuming
that automatic offset generation isn't practical.
next reply other threads:[~2003-08-11 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-10 23:59 Albert Cahalan [this message]
2003-08-11 0:28 ` [patch 2.4 1/2] backport 2.6 x86 cpu capabilities Jeff Garzik
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2003-08-08 19:41 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-09 14:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-08 11:19 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-08 13:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-09 9:51 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-08-08 2:54 Jeff Garzik
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