strange dmesg output on athlon notebook

Pavel Machek
2002-03-11T18:33:06Z

Hi!

I see this in syslog:

CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2
Enabling disabled K7/SSE Support.
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000

Why _Intel_ machine check? And why it says CPU: After vendor init
twice? [This is 2.5.6-acpi...]
Pavel

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