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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:47:44 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Bug on 2.6.26 - x86 VIA Nehemiah CentaurHauls processor cannot boot
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:23 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This bug seems to be present since 2.6.22 [1], so hope we can get this
>>>> fixed ASAP. Let me know if you have patch suggestions I can test.
>>>>
>>>> This crashes very early, I had to use earlyprintk to get it.
>>>>
>>
>> I've put extra spaces between the culprit.
>>
>> c0387ac2:       0f 1f 40 00             nopl   0x0(%eax)
>>
>
> Sure enough, our old friend.
>
> You have in your configuration:
>
> CONFIG_M686=y
> # CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set
>
> ... so this is fully expected; CONFIG_M686 without CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not
> compatible with such processors.
>
> Not a bug.

Thanks for taking a  look at this. So well, it would be a
misconfiguration bug by the distribution then to try to support a
generic 686 kernel wihtout GENERIC then.

  Luis