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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-09-01 11:32:13 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-09-01 11:32:13 +0100
commit9d7548d4ca3c52ecb58f098a32b0756cdf8f96ee (patch)
tree651f7058bbaa2d8b2855286380d614afcf505118 /arch/x86/boot/main.c
parent31db6e9ea1dbdcf66b8227b4f7035dee1b1dd8c0 (diff)
parentbef69ea0dcce574a425feb0a5aa4c63dd108b9a6 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/main.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/main.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/main.c b/arch/x86/boot/main.c
index 2296164b54d..197421db1af 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/main.c
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ static void keyboard_set_repeat(void)
*/
static void query_ist(void)
{
+ /* Some older BIOSes apparently crash on this call, so filter
+ it from machines too old to have SpeedStep at all. */
+ if (cpu.level < 6)
+ return;
+
asm("int $0x15"
: "=a" (boot_params.ist_info.signature),
"=b" (boot_params.ist_info.command),