From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755413Ab1KHWBx (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:01:53 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55589 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752866Ab1KHWBw (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:01:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4EB9A6BC.7050600@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:01:32 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: Daniel Drake , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Geode LX boot fails after x86 microcode revision change References: <20111108203116.GF25083@aftab> In-Reply-To: <20111108203116.GF25083@aftab> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/08/2011 12:31 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > it might be that the Geode doesn't have the patch level MSR.., can you > send /proc/cpuinfo from a working kernel please, say 3.1? > > Although, I have rdmsr_safe in the patch there so it actually shouldn't > be an issue, theoretically. > rdmsr_safe() requires exception table support, may not be available yet. -hpa