Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Dec 01 2016 - 00:54:38 EST
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:34:53PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98.
>
> The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence
> non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID. Since we no
> longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch.
Might be useful to enumerate which special parts these are.