From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Trevor Turner <turn3r.tr3v0r@gmail.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: K7/Athlon Optimization Causes Build Fail on Kernel 3.3 i686
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:49:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F74CAEA.1010606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120329204622.GA8655@liondog.tnic>
On 03/29/2012 01:46 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:28:40AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I like this one for urgent as a quick fix, but it doesn't solve the real
>> problem which is that boot/compressed shouldn't pick up these macros at all.
>
> But it does through:
>
> <arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h>:
>
That's the problem... it shouldn't use that.
>
>> It should be possible to build with MK7 (which is an optimization
>> option) and EFI (a functionality option) since they don't inherently
>> conflict. It just doesn't necessarily have to happen *right now*.
>
> I know, technically it is doable, but do you see a K7 box with an EFI
> firmware? I, at least, don't think so... :-)
>
> Now, if you think that those optimizations could be used on other boxes
> which could sport EFI, then that's a whole another question...
>
What I'm saying, mostly, is that this is indicative of a bigger bug.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-29 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 13:56 K7/Athlon Optimization Causes Build Fail on Kernel 3.3 i686 Trevor Turner
2012-03-27 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-03-28 0:03 ` Trevor Turner
2012-03-28 11:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-28 16:33 ` Trevor Turner
2012-03-28 17:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-28 17:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-03-28 17:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-29 7:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-29 8:14 ` Matt Fleming
2012-03-29 10:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-29 18:21 ` Trevor Turner
2012-03-29 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-29 20:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-29 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-03-30 7:47 ` Borislav Petkov
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