Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757586AbYGFNVN (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:21:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754318AbYGFNU6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:20:58 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:41234 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753915AbYGFNU5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:20:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:21:49 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Sean Young , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500 Message-ID: <20080706132148.GA3172@elf.ucw.cz> References: <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> <486A938D.3080009@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <486A938D.3080009@goop.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 19 On Tue 2008-07-01 13:29:01, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > 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? We still support 386~~, AFAICT. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/