Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 4 March 2014 17:44, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:06:03PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> > forcepae is descriptive. >> >> Back to forcepae. > > Ok, it looks ok to me after a quick look. Now you only

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-04 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:06:03PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > forcepae is descriptive. > > Back to forcepae. Ok, it looks ok to me after a quick look. Now you only have to ask Dave whether he's fine with you merging his

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-04 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:06:03PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: forcepae is descriptive. Back to forcepae. Ok, it looks ok to me after a quick look. Now you only have to ask Dave whether he's fine with you merging his patch

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 4 March 2014 17:44, Borislav Petkov b...@alien8.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:06:03PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: forcepae is descriptive. Back to forcepae. Ok, it looks ok to me after a quick look. Now you only

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > forcepae is descriptive. Back to forcepae. Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 580a60c..67755ea 100644 ---

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
forcepae is descriptive. On March 3, 2014 9:01:30 PM PST, Chris Bainbridge wrote: >On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:29:39PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:04:35PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: >> > On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing wrote: >> > > i would recommend

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:29:39PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:04:35PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing wrote: > > > i would recommend adding the newly introduced param to > > > Documentation/kernel- > > > parameters.txt ,

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:04:35PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing wrote: > > i would recommend adding the newly introduced param to > > Documentation/kernel- > > parameters.txt , though. > > Done. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge > --- > diff --git

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> We routinely expect 2 to 3 u-s jitters on an Atom board running a 32 bit, > RTAI enhanced build of what is by now a 5 year old kernel. This is > extremely board sensitive, and that same kernel running on this 4 core > phenom, cannot stay inside of 40 u-s. A case of more horsepower not being

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > > /* > > +* PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE but has PAE > > +*/ > > Ain't that a tad strongly/incorrectly worded? I've updated the wording. On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing wrote: > i would

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi, /* +* PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE but has PAE +*/ Ain't that a tad strongly/incorrectly worded? I've updated the wording. On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing devz...@web.de wrote: i would

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
We routinely expect 2 to 3 u-s jitters on an Atom board running a 32 bit, RTAI enhanced build of what is by now a 5 year old kernel. This is extremely board sensitive, and that same kernel running on this 4 core phenom, cannot stay inside of 40 u-s. A case of more horsepower not being a

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:04:35PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing devz...@web.de wrote: i would recommend adding the newly introduced param to Documentation/kernel- parameters.txt , though. Done. Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:29:39PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:04:35PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing devz...@web.de wrote: i would recommend adding the newly introduced param to Documentation/kernel- parameters.txt ,

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
forcepae is descriptive. On March 3, 2014 9:01:30 PM PST, Chris Bainbridge chris.bainbri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:29:39PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:04:35PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 3 March 2014 02:05, Roland Kletzing devz...@web.de

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: forcepae is descriptive. Back to forcepae. Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge chris.bainbri...@gmail.com --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 580a60c..67755ea 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 09:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and >>> "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way.

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 March 2014, Dave Jones wrote: >On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into > > boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to > > (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:04:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > It would be a considerable amount of work to make it a runtime thing. > > Ten years ago, maybe it would be worth the effort perhaps, but I'd > > suggest just letting

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > It would be a considerable amount of work to make it a runtime thing. > Ten years ago, maybe it would be worth the effort perhaps, but I'd > suggest just letting 32-bit slowly die instead of doing dramatic > overhauls that will no doubt

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into > boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to > (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers with its static > boot-time flag? > Last time

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 03/02/2014 12:56 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into > boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to > (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers with its static > boot-time flag? > Last time I checked PAE support

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, > /* > + * PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE but has PAE > + */ Ain't that a tad strongly/incorrectly worded? It's probably not certain whether that's a "bug". Prior content in this discussion suggested that the flag might have been intentionally not advertised, due to

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Roland Kletzing
great to see that we have an enhaced version of the initial quick`n`dirty patch now. i just tested it on ubuntu 13.10 with kernel from 14.04 repository (complete package build). works as expected ! hopefully ubuntu #930447 can now be closed soon and the patch will quickly find it´s way into

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Roland Kletzing
great to see that we have an enhaced version of the initial quick`n`dirty patch now. i just tested it on ubuntu 13.10 with kernel from 14.04 repository (complete package build). works as expected ! hopefully ubuntu #930447 can now be closed soon and the patch will quickly find it´s way into

Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, /* + * PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE but has PAE + */ Ain't that a tad strongly/incorrectly worded? It's probably not certain whether that's a bug. Prior content in this discussion suggested that the flag might have been intentionally not advertised, due to not

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 03/02/2014 12:56 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote: (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers with its static boot-time flag? Last time I checked PAE support

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers with its static boot-time flag? Last time I

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: It would be a considerable amount of work to make it a runtime thing. Ten years ago, maybe it would be worth the effort perhaps, but I'd suggest just letting 32-bit slowly die instead of doing dramatic overhauls that will no doubt

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:04:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:02:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: It would be a considerable amount of work to make it a runtime thing. Ten years ago, maybe it would be worth the effort perhaps, but I'd suggest just letting 32-bit

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 March 2014, Dave Jones wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: (BTW, would it be possible to transform Linux's PAE support into boot-config or even fully runtime-detectable boot switching to (non-)PAE, similar to or exceeding what XP offers with its

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-03-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 09:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using linux16 and initrd16, but of course none of the distros do it that way. Fedora does

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:27:50PM +0300, Dennis Mungai wrote: > Hello people, > > Note that revisions of the Dothan core were released in the first quarter > of 2005 with the *Sonoma* chipsets and supported a 533 MT/s FSB and NX-bit > (and PAE support required for it was enabled, unlike earlier

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:27:50PM +0300, Dennis Mungai wrote: Hello people, Note that revisions of the Dothan core were released in the first quarter of 2005 with the *Sonoma* chipsets and supported a 533 MT/s FSB and NX-bit (and PAE support required for it was enabled, unlike earlier

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:49:49AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > > @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > > >

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:49:49AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and >> "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way. > > Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken.

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:20:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > Then it's definitely a good idea :-) LOL! -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:18:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:49:49AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > I'd suggest repurposing 'S'. Instead of 'unsafe smp', it could mean > > "out of Spec". We currently only use that flag on some ancient athlon > > xp, so there's

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:49:49AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > I'd suggest repurposing 'S'. Instead of 'unsafe smp', it could mean > "out of Spec". We currently only use that flag on some ancient athlon > xp, so there's not going to be any kind of collision. Hahaa, I said that yesterday already:

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and > "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way. Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > >clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SEP); > > > >/* > > + * PAE

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 05:18 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: >> @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) >> clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SEP); >> >> /* >> + * PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 08:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > >> The basic findings of the bug discussion is that people are successfully >> running PAE kernels on Pentium M (for some unknown reason Grub skips the >> validate_cpu code in the

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > The basic findings of the bug discussion is that people are successfully > running PAE kernels on Pentium M (for some unknown reason Grub skips the > validate_cpu code in the kernel, so existing PAE kernels will run > unmodified,

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SEP); > > /* > + * PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE but has PAE > + */ > + if

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:16:02AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/25/2014 08:26 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > > > Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:16:02AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/25/2014 08:26 AM, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SEP); /* + * PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE but has PAE + */ + if (forcepae)

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: The basic findings of the bug discussion is that people are successfully running PAE kernels on Pentium M (for some unknown reason Grub skips the validate_cpu code in the kernel, so existing PAE kernels will run unmodified,

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 08:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: The basic findings of the bug discussion is that people are successfully running PAE kernels on Pentium M (for some unknown reason Grub skips the validate_cpu code in the kernel,

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 05:18 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SEP); /* + * PAE CPUID bug: Pentium M reports no PAE

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:18:52PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:12:59PM +0700, Chris Bainbridge wrote: @@ -226,6 +234,15 @@ static void intel_workarounds(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_SEP); /* + * PAE CPUID bug:

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using linux16 and initrd16, but of course none of the distros do it that way. Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:49:49AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: I'd suggest repurposing 'S'. Instead of 'unsafe smp', it could mean out of Spec. We currently only use that flag on some ancient athlon xp, so there's not going to be any kind of collision. Hahaa, I said that yesterday already:

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:18:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:49:49AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: I'd suggest repurposing 'S'. Instead of 'unsafe smp', it could mean out of Spec. We currently only use that flag on some ancient athlon xp, so there's not going

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:20:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Then it's definitely a good idea :-) LOL! -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using linux16 and initrd16, but of course none of the distros do it that way. Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken. Oh, good

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/25/2014 08:26 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > > Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. > > > This is an issue now that some distributions are

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. > > This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping > > non-PAE kernels (those

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:45:57 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. > > This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping > > non-PAE kernels (those

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread Peter Hurley
On 02/25/2014 05:45 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those distributions no longer boot on

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > >Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. > >This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping > >non-PAE kernels (those

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those distributions no longer boot on Pentium M). This small patch fixes the issue by

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those distributions no longer boot on Pentium M). This small patch fixes the issue by

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those distributions no

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread Peter Hurley
On 02/25/2014 05:45 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those distributions no longer boot on

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:45:57 -0800 H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer shipping non-PAE kernels (those

Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

2014-02-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/25/2014 08:26 AM, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:45:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 02/24/2014 10:01 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: Pentium M is PAE capable but does not indicate so in the CPUID response. This is an issue now that some distributions are no longer