Re: kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode )

Samuel Sieb
2008-07-22T05:11:08Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Rafael C. de Almeida <almeidaraf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> I have a computer here with a CPU that the BIOS identifies as:
>>> Cyrix MediaGXm/Cx5530 Unicorn Revision 1.19.3B
>>>
>>> I can't boot any kernel later than 2.6.22 on it. Anything later either
>>> hangs or gives random kernel panics while booting. I tracked down the
>>> problem to a specific commit:
>>>
>>> commit f25f64ed5bd3c2932493681bdfdb483ea707da0a
> does the debug patch below (ontop of v2.6.26 or later kernels) make the
> system bootable again? Commit f25f64ed5 changed the meaning of that
> line. This patch switches back to the old behavior (which essentially
> did nothing, due to macro side-effect bugs).
>
Commenting out this line didn't have any effect that I could see. I was
hoping one way or another it would affect the TSC unstable message I
get, but it didn't even change that.