Re: [PATCH v7 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdiskand bzImage above 4G

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Dec 24 2012 - 20:07:55 EST


On 12/22/2012 05:24 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

Interestingly enough I only see this on any AMD machine - different
motherboards, different memory configurations.

And also in a HVM guest running on an AMD machine. If it runs on Intel
it works just fine.


Could this be the ljmpq problem that Borislav reported (Intel implemented ljmpq, AMD didn't, and I was tempted by a micro-optimization which broke AMD which made it into the patchset)?

-hpa

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