Re: [PATCH 2/4] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Dec 01 2016 - 12:01:18 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:34:53PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98.
>>
>> The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence
>> non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID. Since we no
>> longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch.
>
> Might be useful to enumerate which special parts these are.

Alan thought it was Geode and Elan, right? I can add that to the
commit message if I do a v2.

--Andy