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Message-ID: <20101026201227.GB10050@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:12:27 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
To:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>
Cc:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>, Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	hpa@...or.com, nick.lowe@...il.com, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: Dynamic nop selection breaks boot on Geode LX

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 09:08:27PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 4 October 2010 16:46, Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > looks like I moved dynamic no-op selection way too early in the boot -
> > before the exception tables required to select invalid opcodes were
> > even set up. The patch belows moves them later and should resolve this
> > issue for you. thanks for narrowing it down!
> 
> Bump... This patch has not been merged. I see that there is still some
> lack of consensus in this area but please don't forget about it. The
> offending commit (f49aa448561fe) has ended up in Linus' tree, so
> Linus' tree does not boot on Geode as a result.
> 

yeah, sorry...I've been busy chasing down a compiler issue...I haven't
forgotten, and will post this shortly.

thanks,

-Jason

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