linux-kernel - Re: Setup code crashes my old 486 box

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Message-ID: <20080813104038.GE4342@8bytes.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:40:38 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setup code crashes my old 486 box

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:57:31PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Right in concept, but I dislike the implementation (duplication of the 
> > > CPU detect code we already have).  Could you try this patch and see if 
> > > it works for you?
> > 
> > Cool, with a small modification to fix a build error with it the
> > resulting kernel boots my machine. Thanks.
> > Would be cool to have this patch one merged soon :-)
> > Attached is your patch with my little build fix. It redefines a values
> > already defines in cpufeatures.h but I can't include that file in the
> > boot code so I simply redeclared it. Maybe there is a cleaner solution
> > for this.
> 
> thanks, i've commited the fix below to tip/x86/urgent - it should show 
> up in v2.6.27-rc4 and it might even be backportable to -stable. I've 
> added your Signed-off-by - is that ok with you?

Ok, cool. Thats fine for me. Thanks.

Joerg

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