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
next prev parent 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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