Re: 2.6.22-rc1 does not boot on VIA C3_2 cause of X86_CMPXCHG64

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:51:36PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > 
 > > On Wed, 16 May 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > >> It gets turned on by the code in arch/i386/kernel/cpu.  It's just that
 > >> the new code that Andi added runs during setup, i.e. in real mode, so
 > >> *way* earlier than that.
 > > 
 > > Ahh. Do we really need it that early?
 > 
 > The reason to do it early is so that we can still get a message out if
 > the CPU doesn't have the necessary features.  This is generic code and
 > not specific to CX8.
 > 
 > Since I'm rewriting the setup code in C, I have added code to enable
 > features on VIA and Transmeta CPUs (there was already code in there to
 > enable features on AMD; Intel isn't known to hide any features other
 > than PAE on 400 MHz FSB Pentium-M.)
 > 
 > I think the early feature detection makes good sense.  It's a heckuva
 > lot nicer to get a message on your screen saying that you can't boot
 > this kernel on this CPU than a crash, or an early_printk which may never
 > actually get to you.

agreed, though we'll still need something for .22 (I'm assuming your rework
isn't intended for .22)

	Dave

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