Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:26:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:26:14 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:10765 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:26:13 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Boot failure in 2.5.31 BK with new TLS patch Date: 17 Aug 2002 20:29:51 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation Message-ID: References:

Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 27 In article , Ingo Molnar wrote: > >oh, setup.S. nasty indeed. (yet) untested patch attached, booting into the >new kernel shortly. Ingo, this only fixes the gdt size, it doesn't fix the fact that the gdt itself doesn't seem to be aligned at all (and to clarify, I'm talking very much about the boot-time entry.S gdt, not the "real" run-time gdt). Mind doing that part too? (I can well imagine that some CPU's may not even have the low 4 bits of the gdt register wired up at all, since they should always be zero. So doing a lgdt or lidt with the base not being 16-byte aligned could well result in basically loading crap into the LDT, causing the system not to work at all). This is also true of "bootsect_gdt", I think. Altough I have no idea what the bios "int 15" interfaces actually do. Linus - 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/