Re: Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 dueto dc1e35c

[H. Peter Anvin]

Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:07:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > > Also, I wonder, if we should complain/scream during boot if we find only
> > > fewer cpuid levels on modern generation cpu's.
> > We should, or if this block is reversible, we should probably just undo 
> > it (the reason people put this block in places is because of, ahem, 
> > inferior operating systems having bugs.)
> >
> > Do you know how this is managed?  Via an MSR?
>
> IA32_MISC_ENABLE MSR bit 22

LOL, the official name of this bit is "IA32_MISC_ENABLES.BOOT_NT4"; kind 
of says it all.  In fact, I remember the problems we had with NT4 and 
CPUID back from the Transmeta days, and there, too, we ended up with a 
CPUID hack which Linux unconditionally disables.

I'll write up a patch.

	-hpa



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