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Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"
Date 2016-12-01 18:10 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:34:53PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98.
>>
>> The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence
>> non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID.  Since we no
>> longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch.
>
> Might be useful to enumerate which special parts these are.

Alan thought it was Geode and Elan, right?  I can add that to the
commit message if I do a v2.

--Andy

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[PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing" Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 21:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID  is missing" Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-01 07:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID  is missing" Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-12-01 10:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID  is missing" Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-12-01 11:20 +0100
        [PATCH] x86/CPU: Add X86_FEATURE_CPUID Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-12-01 12:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU: Add X86_FEATURE_CPUID Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-01 18:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing" Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-02 01:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing" Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-12-01 18:10 +0100

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