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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:41:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17ibz4tu4.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080630220939.GA58260@atlantis.8hz.com> (Sean Young's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:09:39 +0000")

Sean Young <sean@mess.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:52:10PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> It's a bit odd that the boot loader neglected to set up ds properly, but 
>> changing the testb line to
>> 
>> 	testb $(1<<6), %cs:BP_loadflags(%esi)
>> 
>> should work.  (Or perhaps a %ss: override would be better?)
>
> Yup, it does (%cs: prefix).

Guys I have a fuzzy memory of reads and definitely writes through %cs not working,
on some processor models.  i386?

If that hadn't been the case I would have used that form more to remove the
dependencies before we reached lgdt in haed.S when I was in there years ago.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-16 12:11 Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500 Sean Young
2008-06-16 13:27 ` Rusty Russell
2008-06-16 13:37   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-16 16:19     ` Sean Young
2008-06-16 17:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-16 17:58         ` Sean Young
2008-06-16 18:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-16 17:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-16 17:07       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 21:43       ` Sean Young
2008-06-30 21:52         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 22:04           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-30 22:14             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-30 22:36               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 22:45                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-30 22:31             ` Sean Young
2008-06-30 22:34             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 22:42               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-01 19:59                 ` Sean Young
2008-07-01 20:20                   ` Sean Young
2008-07-01 20:24                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 20:25                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-15 22:23                     ` Sean Young
2008-07-15 22:30                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-01 20:22                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 20:23                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-01 20:29                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 20:39                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-06 13:21                       ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-30 22:09           ` Sean Young
2008-07-06  2:41             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2008-07-06  3:07               ` H. Peter Anvin

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