Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754274AbYGWHSr (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:18:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751141AbYGWHSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:18:37 -0400 Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:63780 "EHLO pd5mo1no-dmz.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbYGWHSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:18:37 -0400 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=NYti9F7G8_d6_a-phHIA:9 a=UTurMECXin2--lS2YR843S3kQwMA:4 a=l9iCJtgIvv4A:10 a=GFZTb6icBPAA:10 Message-ID: <4886DB31.8070306@sieb.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:18:09 -0700 From: Samuel Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080706 Fedora/1.1.10-1.fc9 SeaMonkey/1.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juergen Beisert CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , "Rafael C. de Almeida" , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Magnus Damm , takada Subject: Re: kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode ) References: <48841A92.4020301@sieb.net> <48856BC6.7030308@sieb.net> <20080722102457.GA773@elte.hu> <200807221251.10843.jbe@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <200807221251.10843.jbe@pengutronix.de> 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: 1128 Lines: 30 Juergen Beisert wrote: > On Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> could you try to figure out which particular use of getCx86() or >> setCx86() makes the difference? Here are the suspect nested ones, for >> which the macro->inline change can be material: >> >> $ grep -n 'Cx86.*Cx86' arch/x86/kernel/*/*.c > 1 >> >> i've applied the patch below to tip/master: >> >> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README >> >> could you check whether it boots your system fine, out of box? It doesn't. > The only critical tweak I found is the one that changes the "Performance > Control Incrementer" because its settings depends on the CPU's core > frequency. > Maybe this tweak should be removed, because the BIOS (hopefully) set it in a > way the hardware supports. > This was the only line that was a problem. See the other branch of this thread with Juergen Beisert. -- 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/