linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] More informative about unknown CPU

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:20:15 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Hans Schou" <linux@...ou.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More informative about unknown CPU

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Hans Schou <linux@...ou.dk> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Write the name of the unknown vendor_id to output instead of just
>> "file not found".
>>
>> Tag changed to 'vendor_id' as used in /proc/cpuinfo
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans Schou <linux@...ou.dk>
>
> applied to tip/x86/unify-cpu-detect, thanks Hans!
>
>> --- linux.trees.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c.orig   2008-10-09 17:33:29.000000000 +0200
>> +++ linux.trees.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c        2008-10-09 17:33:59.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static void __cpuinit get_cpu_vendor(str
>>
>>         if (!printed) {
>>                 printed++;
>> -               printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: Vendor unknown, using generic init.\n");
>> +               printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: vendor_id '%s' unknown, using generic init.\n", v);
>>                 printk(KERN_ERR "CPU: Your system may be unstable.\n");
>
> btw., this was whitespace damaged (i fixed that up by hand). See
> Documentation/email-clients.txt about how to set up the email client.
> (or, when you send x86 patches, you can attach the patch as a MIME
> attachment)
>

What is unknown cpus?

>From Sis or Nvidia?

YH
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