Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 12:30:00 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1 |
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:53:22AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Bob Tracy wrote: > > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>> On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:14 -0500 (CDT) Bob Tracy wrote: > >>> > >>>> The 2.6.22-rc1 boot panics early in amd_mcheck_init() with my k6-III/450. > > > Intel machine check architecture supported. > > general protection fault: 0000 [#1] > > PREEMPT > > Modules linked in: > > CPU: 0 > > EIP: 0060:[<c01079f4>] Not tainted VLI > > EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.22-rc1 #1) > > EIP is at amd_mcheck_init+0x2b/0xc3 > > > > rdmsr with ecx == 0x179 (Machine Check Global Capabilities Register) > > Probably K6 doesn't have that.
sounds right. Intel style MCE capability was introduced with the Athlon on AMD systems iirc.
> Caused by: > > [PATCH] i386: check capability
Though this would imply that Bobs K6-3 is reporting that it does have that bit in its cpuid flags.
Bob, can you send your /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg |grep CPU ?
Dave
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