Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755070AbZKHTwD (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:52:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754595AbZKHTwD (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:52:03 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:55859 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754553AbZKHTwC (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:52:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:51:58 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Matteo Croce Cc: Sven-Haegar Koch , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode Message-ID: <20091108195158.GD4186@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20091003072127.GC21407@elte.hu> <40101cc30911060659k7b3b6428ob1340e476bdbac5b@mail.gmail.com> <4AF4526B.4060101@zytor.com> <40101cc30911061418w357b74d8i3bf9a9537de052d4@mail.gmail.com> <20091108173708.GF1372@ucw.cz> <40101cc30911080940s18eb26bbg641beeaddbc25c3d@mail.gmail.com> <20091108181016.GB32364@elf.ucw.cz> <20091108193618.GB4186@elf.ucw.cz> <40101cc30911081147j77f7b81o86f2cc5a869aca1f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40101cc30911081147j77f7b81o86f2cc5a869aca1f@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 24 > >> But no standard distribution will be made available in a geode special > >> version - not enough machines in the marekt. So I think it is better to > >> be able to use the i686 specific things they already support, like > >> libc6-686 from debian for example. > > > > So hack your distribution to use libc6-686 if you know that it is > > safe... (that is no NOPL usage there). Still no need to break > > /proc/cpuinfo. > > Better to be sure that a NOPL whouldn't SIGILL your program, isn't > it? SIGILL is easier to debug than NOPL mysteriously taking 100x time it should, sorry. 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/