From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752532AbYECTGz (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 15:06:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751174AbYECTGp (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 15:06:45 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60713 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751024AbYECTGp (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 15:06:45 -0400 Message-ID: <481CB6E5.7010009@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 12:03:01 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikael Pettersson CC: Thomas Gleixner , jamal , Suresh Siddha , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: i387/FPU init issues... References: <1209810775.6972.37.camel@localhost> <481CA40A.7040906@zytor.com> <18460.46554.826031.184323@harpo.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <18460.46554.826031.184323@harpo.it.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Are you absolutely sure it's this 3-byte NOP that oopses? > > I also noticed that jamal's /proc/cpuinfo contains >> cpu MHz : 1063.771 > which is either wrong or indicates serious overclocking. > The PIIs maxed out at about 400/450MHz. > Good spotting, and yes, the roof for Pentium II was 450 MHz. Pentium II had a TSC, so it shouldn't be wrong unless there wasn't a bigger timekeeping error on this platform. Jamal, can you clarify? -hpa