Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:10:30 -0700 | From | Samuel Sieb <> | Subject | Re: kernel won't boot on a Cyrix MediaGXm (Geode ) |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Rafael C. de Almeida <almeidaraf@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> I have a computer here with a CPU that the BIOS identifies as: >>> Cyrix MediaGXm/Cx5530 Unicorn Revision 1.19.3B >>> >>> I can't boot any kernel later than 2.6.22 on it. Anything later either >>> hangs or gives random kernel panics while booting. I tracked down the >>> problem to a specific commit: >>> >>> commit f25f64ed5bd3c2932493681bdfdb483ea707da0a > does the debug patch below (ontop of v2.6.26 or later kernels) make the > system bootable again? Commit f25f64ed5 changed the meaning of that > line. This patch switches back to the old behavior (which essentially > did nothing, due to macro side-effect bugs). > Commenting out this line didn't have any effect that I could see. I was hoping one way or another it would affect the TSC unstable message I get, but it didn't even change that.
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