From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setup code crashes my old 486 box
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:33:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A2FEC2.9000209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080813080705.GW31439@8bytes.org>
Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:57:31PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Right in concept, but I dislike the implementation (duplication of the
>> CPU detect code we already have). Could you try this patch and see if
>> it works for you?
>
> Cool, with a small modification to fix a build error with it the
> resulting kernel boots my machine. Thanks.
> Would be cool to have this patch one merged soon :-)
> Attached is your patch with my little build fix. It redefines a values
> already defines in cpufeatures.h but I can't include that file in the
> boot code so I simply redeclared it. Maybe there is a cleaner solution
> for this.
>
There is... let me cook it up and add Alan's correction.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-12 22:47 Setup code crashes my old 486 box Joerg Roedel
2008-08-12 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-12 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-13 0:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-13 8:07 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13 10:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13 10:40 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-13 15:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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