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SubjectRe: Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c
Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:07:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Suresh Siddha wrote:
>>> Also, I wonder, if we should complain/scream during boot if we find only
>>> fewer cpuid levels on modern generation cpu's.
>>>
>> We should, or if this block is reversible, we should probably just undo
>> it (the reason people put this block in places is because of, ahem,
>> inferior operating systems having bugs.)
>>
>> Do you know how this is managed? Via an MSR?
>
> IA32_MISC_ENABLE MSR bit 22

LOL, the official name of this bit is "IA32_MISC_ENABLES.BOOT_NT4"; kind
of says it all. In fact, I remember the problems we had with NT4 and
CPUID back from the Transmeta days, and there, too, we ended up with a
CPUID hack which Linux unconditionally disables.

I'll write up a patch.

-hpa





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