Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:28:01PM +0200, Christian Volkmann wrote: > Though, I've *never* seen or even heard of someone with one of those CPUs, > so whether we need to care is questionable. The mp6 did actually make it > to manufacture aparently, but I don't think anyone actually bought one. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_Technology for a pic of this mythical beast. > > Dave >
> My VIA C7 has the same problem, boots on 486 but not on C3-2 or C7 > > -- > Hans I suppose VIA C7 is another candidate for verify_cpu.S Maybe something like this in assembler might be useful: if ( ! Intel && ! AMD ) { andl $~NEED_CMPXCHG64,%edx } This would not really harm anything but avoid this problem. But I just don't know x86 to do this proper. Christian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/