Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

[Felix Miata]

Adam Williamson composed on 2015-09-16 13:36 (UTC-0700):

> On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 16:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> Adam Williamson composed on 2015-09-16 12:08 (UTC-0700):

>> > We've found an issue in Fedora 23 Beta testing which seems to affect
>> > AMD CPUs when booting the 32-bit images:

>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263762
...
>> > If
>> > you reach the installer, the test passed, no need to do anything else.
>> > If you hit a kernel panic (perhaps after a wait of a couple of
>> > minutes) which looks something like
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1074083 , the test
>> > failed, please let us know that it failed, and tell us exactly what
>> > CPU model you have. Thanks!

I tried on host gx27b, 32 bit P4 with flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce
cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2
ss ht tm pbe pebs bts cid xtpr HTTP, using these:
-rw-rw-r-- 1  46698056 Sep 16 06:59 initrd.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 383676416 Sep 16 06:58 install.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1   5908896 Sep  4 10:18 vmlinuz
23.19.21

Result was Anaconda welcome screen. Host gx27b has working F22, F23 and
Rawhide already, last updated about 3 weeks ago, so I quit.

>> Is it necessary to use the image, or would my normal routine of loading the
>> installation initrd, kernel and squashfs.img via Grub be sufficient for this need?

> Can't say for sure, but it can't hurt to test it! Give it a shot.

Tried again on 32 bit Sempron host m7ncd. Anaconda welcomed me on it too. :-D

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 8
model name	: AMD Sempron(tm)  2800+
stepping	: 1
cpu MHz		: 1996.334
cache size	: 256 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips	: 3992.66
clflush size	: 32
cache_alignment	: 32
address sizes	: 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts
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