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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-03 09:45:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-03 09:47:14 -0700 |
| commit | 8ccb3dcd1f8e80e8702642e1de26541b52f6bb7c (patch) | |
| tree | ad03dadb63ee1fbc70e271b4962b91b376058040 /Documentation | |
| parent | 63c422afe3739b68bec0b5c42807d1450c951caf (diff) | |
x86: Fix booting with "no387 nofxsr"
Jesper Juhl reported that testing the software math-emulation by forcing
"no387" doesn't work on modern CPU's.
The reason was two-fold:
- you also need to pass in "nofxsr" to make sure that we not only don't
touch the old i387 legacy hardware, it also needs to disable the
modern XMM/FXSR sequences
- "nofxsr" didn't actually clear the capability bits immediately,
leaving the early boot sequence still using FXSR until we got to
the identify_cpu() stage.
This fixes the "nofxsr" flag to take effect immediately on the boot CPU.
Debugging by Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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