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Message-ID: <46A8BC94.3040808@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:24:04 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@...oo.fr>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Bug- and documentation fixes for the x86 setup code
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> H. Peter Anvin (5):
>> [x86 setup] MAINTAINERS: document x86 setup code git tree
>> [x86 setup] build/tools.c: fix comment
>> [x86 setup] Fix assembly constraints
>> [x86 setup] VGA: Clear the Protect bit before setting the vertical height
>> [x86 setup] Save/restore DS around invocations of INT 10h
>
> Are there / were there known problems with running new setup code on
> AMD Geode and similar strange cpus? I tried to get wyse thin client to
> work, and it worked ok in 2.6.22, but something broke early in boot
> (doublefault?) with newer versions.
>
Note also that with the new setup code you can put printf() in the setup
code; so sprinking the code with printfs and figuring out *where* it's
failing is probably step 1.
-hpa
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