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

[Andi Kleen]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> 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.)

Even if it's undone it would be still a good idea to make the cpuid
code bulletproof, just in case someone writes a broken emulator or similar.

-Andi

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