Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1533824

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

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"
Date 2016-12-01 07:00 +0100
Message-ID <sJszw-87u-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <sJjPz-2oq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <sJjPz-2oq-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


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.

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[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

csiph-web