Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:18:09 -0700 | From | Samuel Sieb <> | Subject | Re: kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode ) |
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Juergen Beisert wrote: > On Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> could you try to figure out which particular use of getCx86() or >> setCx86() makes the difference? Here are the suspect nested ones, for >> which the macro->inline change can be material: >> >> $ grep -n 'Cx86.*Cx86' arch/x86/kernel/*/*.c > 1 >> >> i've applied the patch below to tip/master: >> >> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README >> >> could you check whether it boots your system fine, out of box?
It doesn't.
> 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.
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