From: Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Rafael C. de Almeida" <almeidaraf@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode )
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:10:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48856BC6.7030308@sieb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721114752.GE23095@elte.hu>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 5:11 kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode ) Samuel Sieb
2008-07-21 6:28 ` Juergen Beisert
2008-07-22 5:16 ` Samuel Sieb
2008-07-22 8:08 ` Juergen Beisert
2008-07-23 7:13 ` Samuel Sieb
2008-07-21 6:36 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-21 11:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 5:10 ` Samuel Sieb [this message]
2008-07-22 10:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 10:51 ` Juergen Beisert
2008-07-23 7:18 ` Samuel Sieb
2008-07-28 15:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 17:58 ` Samuel Sieb
2008-07-29 9:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29 8:15 ` Juergen Beisert
2008-08-07 5:06 ` Samuel Sieb
2008-08-20 9:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-20 9:44 ` Juergen Beisert
2008-08-20 10:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-20 11:03 ` Juergen Beisert
2008-08-20 11:20 ` Ingo Molnar
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