From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:20:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpu1dyl6.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4974F9A8.7060107@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:07:36 -0800")
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
> We should, or if this block is reversible, we should probably just
> undo it (the reason people put this block in places is because of,
> ahem, inferior operating systems having bugs.)
Even if it's undone it would be still a good idea to make the cpuid
code bulletproof, just in case someone writes a broken emulator or similar.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-19 14:04 Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 14:28 ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-19 19:31 ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 20:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-19 20:11 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-19 21:46 ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 21:57 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-19 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-19 22:14 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-19 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-21 5:20 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-01-22 22:22 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-22 22:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 22:56 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-20 3:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-20 6:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 2:26 ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-22 8:28 ` Ingo Molnar
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