From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933744Ab2C2UuO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:50:14 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40006 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753850Ab2C2UuL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:50:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4F74CAEA.1010606@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:49:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Matt Fleming , Trevor Turner , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: Re: K7/Athlon Optimization Causes Build Fail on Kernel 3.3 i686 References: <20120328111957.GA6765@x1.osrc.amd.com> <20120328171059.GA7919@x1.osrc.amd.com> <4F7346BB.9020907@xenotime.net> <20120328172759.GC6765@x1.osrc.amd.com> <20120329074802.GA31955@liondog.tnic> <1333008855.4289.3.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> <20120329104822.GA17233@x1.osrc.amd.com> <4F74A9D8.1040808@zytor.com> <20120329204622.GA8655@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20120329204622.GA8655@liondog.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/29/2012 01:46 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:28:40AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I like this one for urgent as a quick fix, but it doesn't solve the real >> problem which is that boot/compressed shouldn't pick up these macros at all. > > But it does through: > > : > That's the problem... it shouldn't use that. > >> It should be possible to build with MK7 (which is an optimization >> option) and EFI (a functionality option) since they don't inherently >> conflict. It just doesn't necessarily have to happen *right now*. > > I know, technically it is doable, but do you see a K7 box with an EFI > firmware? I, at least, don't think so... :-) > > Now, if you think that those optimizations could be used on other boxes > which could sport EFI, then that's a whole another question... > What I'm saying, mostly, is that this is indicative of a bigger bug. -hpa