Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760766AbXEQWOq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 18:14:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757442AbXEQWOa (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 18:14:30 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:43195 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757362AbXEQWO3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 18:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: <464CD3BB.3090604@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:14:19 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Dave Jones , Christian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1 does not boot on VIA C3_2 cause of X86_CMPXCHG64 References: <464B9D2C.7040704@cv-sv.de> <20070517004209.GE16810@redhat.com> <200705171351.34531.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200705171351.34531.ak@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 19 Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> The C3s all have cx8, but it needs to be enabled in an MSR first. >> (See arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c , search for CX8) > > Sigh. I wonder what genius at VIA came up with that setup. > It's very simple, actually. We had to do something similar at Transmeta, because Windows NT 4 was very fond of assuming that certain features meant certain *other* features were enabled, or would just plain crash if it saw a combination that confused it. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/