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Andreas Schwab
042cbaf88a x86 setup: fix asm constraints in vesa_store_edid
Impact: fix potential miscompile (currently believed non-manifest)

As the comment explains, the VBE DDC call can clobber any register.
Tell the compiler about that fact.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-27 14:48:46 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
5cf02b7baf x86: use limited register constraint for setnz
Impact: build fix with certain compilers

GCC can decide to use %dil when "r" is used, which is not valid for
setnz.

This bug was brought out by Stephen Rothwell's merging of the
branch tracer into linux-next.

[ Thanks to Uros Bizjak for recommending 'q' over 'Q' ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 15:38:03 +01:00
Hannes Eder
a1a00b5885 x86: boot - fix sparse warnings
Impact: make global variables static

Fix these sparse warnings:

 arch/x86/boot/video.c:233:3: warning: symbol 'saved' was not declared. Should it be static?
 arch/x86/boot/video-vga.c:37:13: warning: symbol 'video_vga' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 19:58:58 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c17dad6905 .gitignore updates
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c3c9897c63 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix section mismatch warning - apic_x2apic_phys
  x86: fix section mismatch warning - apic_x2apic_cluster
  x86: fix section mismatch warning - apic_x2apic_uv_x
  x86: fix section mismatch warning - apic_physflat
  x86: fix section mismatch warning - apic_flat
  x86: memtest fix use of reserve_early()
  x86 syscall.h: fix argument order
  x86/tlb_uv: remove strange mc146818rtc include
  x86: remove redundant KERN_DEBUG on pr_debug
  x86: do_boot_cpu - check if we have ESR register
  x86: MAINTAINERS change for AMD microcode patch loader
  x86/proc: fix /proc/cpuinfo cpu offline bug
  x86: call dmi-quirks for HP Laptops after early-quirks are executed
  x86, kexec: fix hang on i386 when panic occurs while console_sem is held
  MCE: Don't run 32bit machine checks with interrupts on
  x86: SB600: skip IRQ0 override if it is not routed to INT2 of IOAPIC
  x86: make variables static
2008-10-23 12:38:39 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
1965aae3c9 x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guards
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:

a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22 22:55:23 -07:00
roel kluin
8bcad30f2e x86: make variables static
These variables are only used in their source files, so make them static.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 07:31:28 +02:00
Michal Januszewski
4d31a2b74c fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer does not support them
Currently, it is possible to set a graphics VESA mode at boot time via the
vga= parameter even when no framebuffer driver supporting this is
configured.  This could lead to the system booting with a black screen,
without a usable console.

Fix this problem by only allowing to set graphics modes at boot time if a
supporting framebuffer driver is configured.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0afe2db213 Merge branch 'x86/unify-cpu-detect' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
2008-10-11 20:23:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b8cd9d056b Merge branch 'x86/header-guards' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
Conflicts:
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
	include/asm-x86/gpio.h
	include/asm-x86/idle.h
	include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h
	include/asm-x86/namei.h
	include/asm-x86/uaccess.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 16:15:57 +02:00
Michal Januszewski
2407390bd2 x86: replace a magic number with a named constant in the VESA boot code
Replace a magic number with a named constant in the VESA boot code.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-05 18:39:29 +02:00
Paul Bolle
d960c9ce47 x86 setup: remove IMAGE_OFFSET
After commit 968de4f ("i386: Relocatable kernel support") IMAGE_OFFSET wasn't
actually used anymore in the (current) X86 build system. Now remove its last
traces.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-04 13:08:46 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
cc65f1ec19 x86 setup: correct segfault in generation of 32-bit reloc kernel
Impact: segfault on build of a 32-bit relocatable kernel

When converting arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c to support unlimited
sections, the computation of sym_strtab in walk_relocs() was done
incorrectly.  This causes a segfault for some people when building the
relocatable 32-bit kernel.

Pointed out by Anonymous <pageexec@freemail.hu>.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-03 13:42:04 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
f68ec0c247 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into x86/setup 2008-10-03 19:28:46 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
98920dc3d1 Revert "x86: fix ghost EDD devices in /sys again"
This reverts commit 464f04c9e9.
Obsoleted by commit 6cdcdb99cf.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-03 10:22:33 -07:00
Andrey Borzenkov
6cdcdb99cf x86 setup: fix ghost entries under /sys/firmware/edd take 3
Some BIOSes do not indicate error when trying to read from non-
existing device. Zero buffer before reading and check that we
possibly have valid MBR by looking for MBR magic.

This was fixed in different way for edd.S in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2, but lost
again when edd.S was rewritten in C.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov < arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-03 10:15:29 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
5e51900be6 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/cleanups 2008-09-19 09:15:50 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
97fc0555da x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
Checkin e38e05a858 added a 9th CPU flag
word, but didn't adjust the boot code to match.  This patch adds the
necessary boot code support.

Note: due to a typo in an #if statement, it didn't trigger the #error
this was supposed to do.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-16 15:09:26 -07:00
Paul Bolle
9985647891 x86 setup: drop SWAP_DEV
Impact: None (cleanup)

SWAP_DEV is unused since 2.6.23-rc1. The comment was already incorrect
since (at least) 2.6.12.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-16 09:57:36 -07:00
Andrey Borzenkov
464f04c9e9 x86: fix ghost EDD devices in /sys again
> This is regression but old enough. Apparently I had for whatever reasons
> EDD turned off till recently. This is 2.6.27-rc5 just in case.
>
> In 2006 I fixed ghost devices due to buggy BIOS:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2
>
> Later edd.S has been rewritten in C, and apparently this patch has been
> lost:
>
> {pts/1}% ls /sys/firmware/edd
> int13_dev80/  int13_dev84/  int13_dev88/  int13_dev8c/
> int13_dev81/  int13_dev85/  int13_dev89/  int13_dev8d/
> int13_dev82/  int13_dev86/  int13_dev8a/  int13_dev8e/
> int13_dev83/  int13_dev87/  int13_dev8b/  int13_dev8f/
>
> But I have just a single disk. This is the same system BTW.

Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13.
The patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0).

This was fixed for edd.S in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2, but lost
again when edd.S was rewritten in C.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 16:30:36 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
d2f37384fc x86: when building image.iso, use isohybrid if it exists
When building image.iso (make isoimage), use the isohybrid tool if it
exists.  isohybrid is a script included with Syslinux 3.72 and higher,
which creates an image that can be booted either as a hard disk
(including removable, e.g. USB disk) or as a CD-ROM.

If isohybrid doesn't exist, then this has no effect.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-05 22:11:25 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
b74b06c5f6 x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words
The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words.  In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered).  Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-05 16:13:44 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7203781c98 Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
2008-09-04 08:08:42 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7f16a33978 x86: boot/compressed/Makefile: fix "make clean"
The Kbuild variable "targets" is supposed to be
configuration-independent and reflect "all possible targets".  This is
required to make "make clean" work properly.

Therefore, move all manipulation of "targets" as well as custom rules
out of the x86-32 ifdef statement.  Only leave inside the ifdefs the
things that are genuinely configuration-dependent.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-09-04 06:19:45 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7414aa41a6 x86: generate names for /proc/cpuinfo from <asm/cpufeature.h>
We have had a number of cases where <asm/cpufeature.h> (and its
predecessors) have diverged substantially from the names list in
/proc/cpuinfo.  This patch generates the latter from the former.

It retains the option for explicitly overriding the strings, but by
making that require a separate action it should at least be less
likely to happen.

It would be good to do a future pass and rename strings that are
gratuituously different in the kernel (/proc/cpuinfo is a userspace
interface and must remain constant.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-27 19:23:22 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
b30a72a7ed Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/cpu
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
2008-08-27 19:17:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
7393423dd9 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups 2008-08-20 11:52:15 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
e2fe16d912 x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words
The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words.  In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered).  Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-18 18:22:17 -07:00
Andi Kleen
1b72691ce3 x86: fix build warnings in real mode code
This recent patch

commit c3965bd151
Author: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date:   Wed May 14 08:15:34 2008 -0700

    x86 boot: proper use of ARRAY_SIZE instead of repeated E820MAX constant

caused these new warnings during a normal build:

In file included from linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/memory.c:17:
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__ilog2_u32':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:34: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls'
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__ilog2_u64':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:42: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls64'
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__roundup_pow_of_two ':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls_long'

I tried to fix them in log2.h, but it's difficult because the real mode
environment is completely different from a normal kernel environment. Instead
define an own ARRAY_SIZE macro in boot.h, similar to the other private
macros there.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-18 09:20:14 +02:00
Paolo Ciarrocchi
020878ac42 x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
Before:
total: 4 errors, 6 warnings, 439 lines checked

After:
total: 1 errors, 5 warnings, 441 lines checked

Before

 -#include <asm/io.h>
 +#include <linux/io.h>

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/linux.trees.git$ md5sum /tmp/misc.o.*
8b2394e1fe519a9542e9a7e3e7b69c39  /tmp/misc.o.after
8b2394e1fe519a9542e9a7e3e7b69c39  /tmp/misc.o.before

After

 -#include <asm/io.h>
 +#include <linux/io.h>

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/linux.trees.git$ md5sum /tmp/misc.o.*
59a2d264284be5e72b5af4f3a8ccfb47  /tmp/misc.o.after
8b2394e1fe519a9542e9a7e3e7b69c39  /tmp/misc.o.before

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 16:53:23 +02:00
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
Philipp Kohlbecher
59f09ba2b6 x86: fix comment in protected mode header
Comments in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S erroneously refer to the
real mode pointer as the second and the heap area as the third argument
to decompress_kernel(). In fact, these have been the first and second
argument, respectively, since v2.6.20.

This patch corrects the comments. It introduces no code changes.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 21:35:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1503af6619 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/header-guards
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/gpio.h
	include/asm-x86/ide.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 15:30:40 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
2d6ffcca62 inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.

The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.

This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.

The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
 - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
   allocations should be made
 - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
   allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
   the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed

The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call.  This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().

Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Vegard Nossum
a318631686 x86: consolidate header guards
This patch consolidates the header guard names which are also used
externally, i.e. in .c files.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2008-07-22 21:53:53 +02:00
Jan Beulich
f2ba93929f x86: check function status in EDD boot code
Without checking the return value of get_edd_info() and adding the
entry only in the success case, 6 devices show up under
/sys/firmware/edd/, no matter how many devices are actually present.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-18 14:33:17 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
4fdf08b5bf x86: unify and correct the GDT_ENTRY() macro
Merge the GDT_ENTRY() macro between arch/x86/boot/pm.c and
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c and put the new one in
<asm-x86/segment.h>.

While we're at it, correct the bitmasks for the limit and flags.  The
new version relies on using ULL constants in order to cause type
promotion rather than explicit casts; this avoids having to include
<linux/types.h> in <asm-x86/segments.h>.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-17 11:29:24 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
3de352bbd8 Merge branch 'x86/mpparse' into x86/devel
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
	arch/x86/mm/init_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 11:14:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
896395c290 Merge branch 'linus' into tmp.x86.mpparse.new 2008-07-08 10:32:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3c1ca43faf Merge branch 'x86/setup' into x86/devel 2008-07-08 09:43:01 +02:00
Ben Collins
6bcb13b35a x86: config option to disable info from decompression of the kernel
This patch allows the disabling of decompression messages during
x86 bootup.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-03 14:34:02 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
2ee2394b68 x86: fix regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Maybe it really does require the far jump immediately after setting PE
> in cr0...
>
> Hm, I don't remember this paragraph being in vol 3a, section 8.9.1
> before.  Is it a recent addition?
>
>    Random failures can occur if other instructions exist between steps
>    3 and 4 above.  Failures will be readily seen in some situations,
>    such as when instructions that reference memory are inserted between
>    steps 3 and 4 while in system management mode.
>

I don't remember that, either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-01 10:53:29 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
908ec7afac x86: remove arbitrary ELF section limit in i386 relocatable kernel
Impact: build failure in maximal configurations

The 32-bit x86 relocatable kernel requires an auxilliary host program
to process the relocations.  This program had a hard-coded arbitrary
limit of a 100 ELF sections.  Instead of a hard-coded limit, allocate
the structures dynamically.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
2008-06-30 20:22:58 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
aa60d13fb0 x86: setup: issue a null command after enabling A20 via KBC
Apparently, DOS and possibly other legacy operating systems issued a
null command to the keyboard controller after toggling A20,
specifically "pulse output pins" with no output pins specified.  This
was presumably done for synchronization reasons.  This has made it
into at least the UHCI spec, and it has been found to cause
compatibility problems when "legacy USB" is enabled (which it almost
always is) to not have this byte sent.

It is *NOT* clear if any of these compatibility problems has any
effect on Linux.  However, for maximum compatibility, issue this null
command after togging A20 through the KBC.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-06-27 13:29:01 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
1791a78c0b Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups 2008-06-16 11:17:50 +02:00
Manish Katiyar
52aaa12fbe x86: fix unused variable 'loops' warning in arch/x86/boot/a20.c
Following patch fixes the below warning message :
arch/x86/boot/a20.c:118: warning: unused variable 'loops'

Signed-off-by : Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-12 21:27:05 +02:00