Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: F00F... (And Cyrix/K6/..) | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:38 +0100 (BST) |
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> Not just with the f00f workaround, with the entire 'check_bugs()' function, > including the Cyrix detection, for instance. The problem is that since > 2.1.115 or thereabouts, when compiling with SMP, 'smp_init()' is called > before check_bugs(). Apparently this is necessary for SMP P5 boards to work, > but it also brings up this problem.
All the bug checking is broken right now, F00F, timestamp the lot. (Not that the timestamp one should matter as there is a very nice fix to all the APM/timestamp stuff that works on all CPU's anyway that ought to get into the kernel some time )
> smp_init, so it can order the bugchecks itself, or make > check_bugs_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86) that gets called by smp_init for each > processor. (yuck ;-)
The latter is probably cleaner.
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