From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964958AbWGESMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964957AbWGESMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:12:31 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42671 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964958AbWGESMa (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:12:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200607050745_MC3-1-C42B-9937@compuserve.com> <44ABEB20.2010702@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:28:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1152124139.6533.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Mer, 2006-07-05 am 09:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds: > Anybody with that old a CPU will have learnt to to say "no-hlt" or > whatever the kernel command line is, and we could probably retire the > silly old hlt check (which I'm not even sure really ever worked). The one specific case I know precisely details of was the Cyrix 5510. A hlt by the CPU on that chipset during an IDE DMA transfer hangs the system forever. Its some years since I've even seen a 5510 and that check could be automated anyway Alan