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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix i486 boot failure due to stale %ds
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:12:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472E51C1.5080800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472E50C5.5020201@goop.org>

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's what the spec says.  I queried this a few months ago, but
> hpa used his convincing voice and said that in practice it isn't
> necessary; there are no known cpus which need this, and any that do
> would cause other things to break.  But I guess now we have the
> counter-example...
> 

Yup.  I owe you a beverage :)

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-04 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-04 21:58 [PATCH] fix i486 boot failure due to stale %ds Mikael Pettersson
2007-11-04 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-04 23:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-04 23:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-04 23:12   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-11-04 23:50   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05  0:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-05  0:23       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-04 23:51   ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-05  1:18 Mikael Pettersson
2007-11-04 19:38 Mikael Pettersson
2007-11-04 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-04 16:44 Mikael Pettersson
2007-11-04 18:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-04 19:00   ` H. Peter Anvin

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