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* x86: cleanup for setup code crashes during IST probeH. Peter Anvin2008-08-13
| | | | | | | | Clean up the code for crashes during SpeedStep probing on older machines. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: fix setup code crashes on my old 486 boxJoerg Roedel2008-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | yesterday I tried to reactivate my old 486 box and wanted to install a current Linux with latest kernel on it. But it turned out that the latest kernel does not boot because the machine crashes early in the setup code. After some debugging it turned out that the problem is the query_ist() function. If this interrupt with that function is called the machine simply locks up. It looks like a BIOS bug. Looking for a workaround for this problem I wrote the attached patch. It checks for the CPUID instruction and if it is not implemented it does not call the speedstep BIOS function. As far as I know speedstep should be available since some Pentium earliest. Alan Cox observed that it's available since the Pentium II, so cpuid levels 4 and 5 can be excluded altogether. H. Peter Anvin cleaned up the code some more: > Right in concept, but I dislike the implementation (duplication of the > CPU detect code we already have). Could you try this patch and see if > it works for you? which, with a small modification to fix a build error with it the resulting kernel boots on my machine. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Signed-off-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor.Kristian Høgsberg2008-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | This patch lets the early real mode code look for the 'quiet' option on the kernel command line and pass a loadflag to the decompressor. When this flag is set, we suppress the "Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done." messages. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* x86: remove pointless commentsWANG Cong2008-04-19
| | | | | | | | | Remove old comments that include the old arch/i386 directory. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86 setup: guard the heap against invalid stack setupsH. Peter Anvin2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | If we use the bootloader-provided stack pointer, we might end up in a situation where the bootloader (incorrectly) pointed the stack in the middle of our heap. Catch this by simply comparing the computed heap end value to the stack pointer minus the defined stack size. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86 setup: push video mode setup as late as possibleH. Peter Anvin2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Push video mode setup as late as possible; messages issued through the BIOS interface after video mode setup will either not be seen (for framebuffer modes) or will screw up the cursor (for text modes.) In particular, this makes the EDD probing message show up correctly. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86: clean up setup.h and the boot codeH. Peter Anvin2007-10-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Make <asm/setup.h> usable by the boot code. Clean up vestiges of the old command-line protocol from setup.h and head_32.S (it is still supported from the boot loader point of view, since it is converted to the new command-line protocol by the boot code.) Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* i386: move bootThomas Gleixner2007-10-11
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>