Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

From: davej@suse.de
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 10:57:12 EDT

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    On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote:

    > Sounds like you got caught by the conditional move instruction that is
    > generated for 686. It causes oops on 586, and somewhere in the oops or
    > printk code you hit another cmove. Double fault, kernel hang.

    Ah yes, it all comes back to me now :)
    Also explains why my printk's weren't working during tests.

    I'm amazed it took this long for someone to notice. :)
    I'll have to start running devel kernels on all the
    funky hardware like Winchip. Mine has been running 2.2
    (where this isn't an issue) for a long time.

    regards,

    d.

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    | Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>  http://www.suse.de/~davej
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