Re: Bug on 2.6.26 - x86 VIA Nehemiah CentaurHauls processor cannotboot

[Ingo Molnar]

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:23 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>> This bug seems to be present since 2.6.22 [1], so hope we can get this
>>>> fixed ASAP. Let me know if you have patch suggestions I can test.
>>>>
>>>> This crashes very early, I had to use earlyprintk to get it.
>>>>
>>
>> I've put extra spaces between the culprit.
>>
>> c0387ac2:       0f 1f 40 00             nopl   0x0(%eax)
>>
>
> Sure enough, our old friend.
>
> You have in your configuration:
>
> CONFIG_M686=y
> # CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set
>
> ... so this is fully expected; CONFIG_M686 without CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is  
> not compatible with such processors.
>
> Not a bug.

it would still be nice to get a nice printk and panic during bootup 
instead of some obscure crash, hm?

	Ingo
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