Re: strange dmesg output on athlon notebook

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:55:57 +0100


On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:00:57PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Why _Intel_ machine check?

Same reason the Athlon has Intel style MTRRs.
Though digging through the docs the last day or so, the MCE isn't
100% compatable. I'll work on this sometime soon.

> And why it says CPU: After vendor init
> twice? [This is 2.5.6-acpi...]

SMP kernel ?
We init the boot CPU twice on SMP iirc.

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