Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:58:28 -0700 | | From | Samuel Sieb <> | | Subject | Re: kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode ) |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net> wrote: > >>> The only critical tweak I found is the one that changes the >>> "Performance Control Incrementer" because its settings depends on the >>> CPU's core frequency. Maybe this tweak should be removed, because the >>> BIOS (hopefully) set it in a way the hardware supports. >> This was the only line that was a problem. See the other branch of >> this thread with Juergen Beisert. > > any patch we should pick up to make your box boot? > Are you suggesting I should make the patch or you're just asking which lines? What I did to make a kernel that boots was to comment out the line that calls the incrementor setup function. It sounds like the stepping 2 version doesn't have the problem, so if possible could you call the function based on it not being a stepping 1 CPU?
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