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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2016-12-09 10:24:06 -0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-12-19 11:54:20 +0100
commit426d1aff3138cf38da14e912df3c75e312f96e9e (patch)
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Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"
This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98. The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID. Since we no longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch. I think the relevant CPUs are Geode and Elan, but I'm not sure. In principle, we should try to do better at identifying CPUID-less CPUs in early boot, but that's more complicated. Reported-by: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel <Xen-devel@lists.xen.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/82acde18a108b8e353180dd6febcc2876df33f24.1481307769.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/cpu.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
index 4224ede43b4e..26240dde081e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
@@ -87,12 +87,6 @@ int validate_cpu(void)
return -1;
}
- if (CONFIG_X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY <= 4 && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_M486) &&
- !has_eflag(X86_EFLAGS_ID)) {
- printf("This kernel requires a CPU with the CPUID instruction. Build with CONFIG_M486=y to run on this CPU.\n");
- return -1;
- }
-
if (err_flags) {
puts("This kernel requires the following features "
"not present on the CPU:\n");