Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760691AbYGAU3X (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:29:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755150AbYGAU3H (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:29:07 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:45717 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758950AbYGAU3G (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:29:06 -0400 Message-ID: <486A938D.3080009@goop.org> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:29:01 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Sean Young , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500 References: <20080616121138.GA51097@atlantis.8hz.com> <200806162327.34912.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <48566C88.6000702@goop.org> <20080616161944.GA53539@atlantis.8hz.com> <20080630214347.GA57988@atlantis.8hz.com> <4869558A.9020907@goop.org> <48695871.8000805@zytor.com> <48695F88.9080905@goop.org> <48696167.6050000@zytor.com> <20080701195942.GA76608@atlantis.8hz.com> <486A9257.1050302@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <486A9257.1050302@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 537 Lines: 14 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Not really. In particular, I really don't want to add something that > is even remotely likely to break on other platforms, and a fence > instruction is relatively recent. I wonder if a cpuid would do the trick? Do we still support cpuid-less processors? J -- 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/