Looking for closure on:

michael.goddard wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> This is Mike Goddard from AMD, we met on a phone call a month or two ago.
>
> We (AMD) has been doing some internal testing of RedHat 6.2 in our lab on
> some of our yet to be released processors and found a CPUID "misuse"
> problem in (I believe) the kernel.  This causes a GPF on our new part.
> RedHat 6.1 did not have this problem.
>
> The sequence of events:
>
>         CPUID function 80000001 accesses the extended feature register,
> returning value in EDX
>         if (bit 18 set) {
>                 Push ptr to string "Disabling Pentium Serial Number"
>                 do some rdmsr/wrmsr stuff
>                 }
>
> Unlike the standard feature flags, the vendor feature flags are vendor
> specific, i.e. either
> "GenuineIntel" or "AuthenticAMD".  Or new processor used bit 18 of the
> 80000001
> extended feature flag to indicate ECC support not a serial number.
>
> If we use some internal tools to force bit 18 to zero, RedHat 6.2 boots
> fine.
>
> Can you help?

I'll take care of this in the next PIII patch that I put out (these patches
make changes to that specific code and will therefore fix the problem).


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