Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:53:22AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Bob Tracy wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:14 -0500 (CDT) Bob Tracy wrote:

The 2.6.22-rc1 boot panics early in amd_mcheck_init() with my k6-III/450.

Intel machine check architecture supported.
general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01079f4>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.22-rc1 #1)
EIP is at amd_mcheck_init+0x2b/0xc3


rdmsr with ecx == 0x179 (Machine Check Global Capabilities Register)

Probably K6 doesn't have that.

sounds right. Intel style MCE capability was introduced with the Athlon
on AMD systems iirc.

Caused by:

[PATCH] i386: check capability

Though this would imply that Bobs K6-3 is reporting that it does have
that bit in its cpuid flags.

Bob, can you send your /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg |grep CPU ?

Dave

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