linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 11:53:22 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@....com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1

Bob Tracy wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:14 -0500 (CDT) Bob Tracy wrote:
>>>
>>>> The 2.6.22-rc1 boot panics early in amd_mcheck_init() with my k6-III/450.

> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
> PREEMPT
> Modules linked in:
> CPU:   0
> EIP: 0060:[<c01079f4>]  Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.22-rc1 #1)
> EIP is at amd_mcheck_init+0x2b/0xc3
> 

rdmsr with ecx == 0x179 (Machine Check Global Capabilities Register)

Probably K6 doesn't have that.

Caused by:

	[PATCH] i386: check capability

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