Re: F00F... (And Cyrix/K6/..)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:38 +0100 (BST)


> Not just with the f00f workaround, with the entire 'check_bugs()' function,
> including the Cyrix detection, for instance. The problem is that since
> 2.1.115 or thereabouts, when compiling with SMP, 'smp_init()' is called
> before check_bugs(). Apparently this is necessary for SMP P5 boards to work,
> but it also brings up this problem.

All the bug checking is broken right now, F00F, timestamp the lot. (Not that
the timestamp one should matter as there is a very nice fix to all the
APM/timestamp stuff that works on all CPU's anyway that ought to get into
the kernel some time )

> smp_init, so it can order the bugchecks itself, or make
> check_bugs_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86) that gets called by smp_init for each
> processor. (yuck ;-)

The latter is probably cleaner.

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