Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:37:44 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Geode LX boot fails after x86 microcode revision change |
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:17:21PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Petkov, Borislav > <Borislav.Petkov@amd.com> wrote: > > This could definitely explain why it hangs, the rdmsr_safe call is > > in early_init_amd(), so it could really be too early for exception tables. > > I think this is almost certainly the cause too. The symptoms of this > issue are exactly the same as the early boot hang once discussed in a > thread titled "Dynamic nop selection breaks boot on Geode LX" (which > you wrote to as well) which was a problem of running code before > having exception tables set up.
Oh yeah, that.
> I haven't yet run your tests except for "rdmsr 0x8b" which returns > "pread: Input/output error" - let me know if you would still like > results from the other tests.
Yep, just send me /proc/cpuinfo from a working kernel.
Thanks.
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