From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764378AbXGZPYs (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:24:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756892AbXGZPYl (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:24:41 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56403 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755324AbXGZPYk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:24:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46A8BC94.3040808@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:24:04 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Sam Ravnborg , Etienne Lorrain , Chuck Ebbert Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Bug- and documentation fixes for the x86 setup code References: <200707181858.l6IIwA27032630@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <20070726104246.GD10208@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070726104246.GD10208@ucw.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> H. Peter Anvin (5): >> [x86 setup] MAINTAINERS: document x86 setup code git tree >> [x86 setup] build/tools.c: fix comment >> [x86 setup] Fix assembly constraints >> [x86 setup] VGA: Clear the Protect bit before setting the vertical height >> [x86 setup] Save/restore DS around invocations of INT 10h > > Are there / were there known problems with running new setup code on > AMD Geode and similar strange cpus? I tried to get wyse thin client to > work, and it worked ok in 2.6.22, but something broke early in boot > (doublefault?) with newer versions. > Note also that with the new setup code you can put printf() in the setup code; so sprinking the code with printfs and figuring out *where* it's failing is probably step 1. -hpa