On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:> Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI writes:> > Hello,> > I think that followig patch can help those who have SMP kernel> > and F00F Pentium and new kernels does not show it in cpuinfo.> > Problem is that check_bugs is called after processors are started> > and it is not good idea. I've tested in only on UNI motherboard,> > but I think that this must work. Patch is against 2.1.120pre3.> > IIRC, check_bugs() was moved to after smp_begin() for some reason. So> your patch may break something again.May very well be, but right now, it breaks a lot of things. boot_cpu_data isused to initialize every cpu, and check_bugs fills a large part of it:__initfunc(static void check_bugs(void)){ check_cyrix_cpu(); identify_cpu(&boot_cpu_data);#ifndef __SMP__ printk("CPU: "); print_cpu_info(&boot_cpu_data);#endif check_cx686_cpuid_slop(); check_tlb(); check_fpu(); check_hlt(); check_popad(); check_amd_k6(); check_pentium_f00f(); system_utsname.machine[1] = '0' + boot_cpu_data.x86;}The change occured somewhere between 2.1.114 and 2.1.116, maybe 2.1.115 (i_think_ my 2.1.115 tree+kernel are pre-something, but i'm not sure.)Since then, the above things may have been weird. Then again, I might bewrong, I'm not really a kernel hacker, I only browsed it, just now.Please correct me :)-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.eduPlease read the FAQ at