Daniel Jarboe wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote:SLES11 was checking the CPU Model, not liking 9672, and aborting. I changed CPUMODEL to something more current (2096) and the SLES11 installer IPLed without incident.
It's not actually a SLES 11 thing.. The test exists in the upstream kernel. Go fetch me the cane so I can flog the guy who put that weird test in arch/s390/kernel/head.S ! I mean.. come on.. ok.. Specifying 9672 breaks but specifying 2096 works... but guess what.. having a 4341 CPU model also works ;) (not that it would go very far anyway on a *REAL* 4341 !) At least, there should be a significantly unique magic in the disabled wait PSW IA to allow someone to easily find it by googling ! Someone attempting to boot a modern kernel on an old machine (like a z9 only kernel on a z990) may be happy to find a quick answer ! Like 00A0000 8EADBADC (read : head.S Bad CPU) (I might actually want to submit a patch on that one to the IBM linux folks in Germany !) --Ivan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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