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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