Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:59:32 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/20] x86_64: Move CPU verification code to common file |
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Oleg Verych wrote: > > It will burn CPU, until power cycle will be done (my AMD64 laptop and > Intel's amd64 destop PC require that). In case of reboot timeout (or > just reboot with jump to BIOS), i will just choose another image to boot > or will press F8 to have another boot device. >
That's a fairly stupid argument, since it assumes operator intervention, at which point you have access to the machine anyway.
A stronger argument is, again, that some bootloaders can do unattended fallback.
However, this test should probably be pushed earlier, into setup.S, where executing a BIOS-clean reboot is much easier.
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