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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.
>
> BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000
>      EDI 00000000  ESI 0009f000  EBP 00000000  ESP c036ff60
>      EBX c03e6070  EDX 00000006  ECX 0000009f  EAX c034d240
>      err 00000000  EIP c0387ac2   CS 00000060  flg 00010016
> Stack: 00000000 00000000 c03b63d8 c037bb11 0001dff0 00003c00 c0399614 c03b6304
>        00822007 c037aeb4 c0304134 000001df c0304117 00000000 30303030 205d3030
>        00000000 c034c794 00000000 00000000 00822007 c02b921f c034c794 00000000
> [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26 #1

Use objdump -d or something to find out what is at 0xc0387ac2; the error 
is an undefined instruction exception.

I suspect this is another case of a processor reporting family == 6 and 
not providing the 0F 1F NOP opcodes.

	-hpa
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