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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ingo Molnar
965c7ecaf2 x86: remove the Voyager 32-bit subarch
Impact: remove unused/broken code

The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel
and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27,
v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels.

No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage.
Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the
discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly
fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken.

In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support
has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the
build problems already known, needs serious and significant
changes and probably a rewrite to support it.

CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has
been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it.

While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme,
voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which
clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in
case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back
after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable
fashion.

So remove this inactive code for now.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:54:01 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
c2dcfde827 x86: cleanup for setup code crashes during IST probe
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>
2008-08-14 00:13:52 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
7b27718bdb x86: fix setup code crashes on my old 486 box
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>
2008-08-13 11:59:18 +02:00
Kristian Høgsberg
3b6b9293d0 x86: Honor 'quiet' command line option in real mode boot decompressor.
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>
2008-05-30 17:00:47 -07:00
WANG Cong
cf9b111c17 x86: remove pointless comments
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>
2008-04-19 19:19:54 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
acd644bb4a x86 setup: guard the heap against invalid stack setups
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:04 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
1a8514e04e x86 setup: push video mode setup as late as possible
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:03 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
fa76dab935 x86: clean up setup.h and the boot code
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>
2007-10-23 22:37:25 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
96ae6ea0be i386: move boot
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>
2007-10-11 11:16:45 +02:00