From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756795AbYEDNKL (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 09:10:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752461AbYEDNJ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 09:09:59 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44808 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752052AbYEDNJ6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 09:09:58 -0400 X-Authenticated: #310364 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19+YmQt0wR+JnXXgEguvVHBtYHm8jx81Tltaqdcir owgFXLK0DliNkP Message-ID: <004701c8ade8$266832c0$0201a8c0@zeug> From: "Sebastian Herbszt" To: , "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Suresh Siddha" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Ingo Molnar" , "LKML" , References: <1209810775.6972.37.camel@localhost> <481CA40A.7040906@zytor.com> <481CC5CD.8060205@zytor.com> Subject: Re: i387/FPU init issues... Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 15:08:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jamal, > Sorry folks - had to run some errands. Wow, thanks for all the > responses. > > Yes, the posting i just did (as pointed in my first email) was on > qemu (so was the /proc/cpuinfo). I moved to qemu because it was less > painful to do the git bisecting on my laptop; i used the same .config. > I should also note that qemu seems to have worked fine in the past. > In any case I will try to rerun on the older hardware which i can access > next week again. I am begining to doubt myself if it is the same issue; > i know even there it was pointing to FPU. > So is the correct fix then to go patch qemu then? I should point i am > running a slightly older version of qemu that has a few patches (nothing > to do with x86 emulation). > > hpa, results from running on qemu (not the hardware) are: > ----- > mambo:~# ./hpa > Test 0: ok > Test 1: ok > Test 2: ok > Test 3: err > Test 4: err > Test 5: err > Test 6: err > Test 7: err > Test 8: err > ---------------- this is the same result i get with qemu 0.8.2. With version 0.9.0 and later it is: debian:~# ./hpa Test 0: ok Test 1: ok Test 2: ok Test 3: ok Test 4: ok Test 5: ok Test 6: ok Test 7: ok Test 8: ok > cheers, > jamal - Sebastian