Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:28:59 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-07-05 am 09:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds: > Anybody with that old a CPU will have learnt to to say "no-hlt" or > whatever the kernel command line is, and we could probably retire the > silly old hlt check (which I'm not even sure really ever worked).
The one specific case I know precisely details of was the Cyrix 5510. A hlt by the CPU on that chipset during an IDE DMA transfer hangs the system forever.
Its some years since I've even seen a 5510 and that check could be automated anyway
Alan
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