From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755918AbYGUXZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:25:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754063AbYGUXY6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:24:58 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57878 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753696AbYGUXY5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:24:57 -0400 Message-ID: <48851AC2.8030007@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:24:50 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: linux kernel , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ivan Seskar , jfm3 , Sujith Subject: Re: Bug on 2.6.26 - x86 VIA Nehemiah CentaurHauls processor cannot boot References: <43e72e890807210614y58065d75j5b2fb3c5ebe6180a@mail.gmail.com> <48848DDF.6010903@zytor.com> <43e72e890807210701w6d7f5638w5fdbea76a1cf1c0b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890807210701w6d7f5638w5fdbea76a1cf1c0b@mail.gmail.com> 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 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:23 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> This bug seems to be present since 2.6.22 [1], so hope we can get this >>> fixed ASAP. Let me know if you have patch suggestions I can test. >>> >>> This crashes very early, I had to use earlyprintk to get it. >>> > > I've put extra spaces between the culprit. > > c0387ac2: 0f 1f 40 00 nopl 0x0(%eax) > Sure enough, our old friend. You have in your configuration: CONFIG_M686=y # CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set ... so this is fully expected; CONFIG_M686 without CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not compatible with such processors. Not a bug. -hpa