From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Symons <PaulS@paradigmgeo.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel oops 2.4.24
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:27:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114052743.GD23845@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040113185948.GA17867@axis.demon.co.uk>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:59:48PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > I am trying to run Gentoo on this hardware, and have had problems from the
> > start, with respect to compiling things like Gentoo. The hardware is a
> > little bit of an oddity, because i read that it is classed as i686, yet it
> > doesn't support the cmov opcode. All my compile optimisations have been at
> > best i586 as a result.
>
> I wonder if you are thinking of the Nehemiah (the C3 mark 2) rather
> than the Samuel which is on that board. As far as I'm aware its only
> safe to use i386 code and that is what we've been using very
> succesfully (with a Debian/stable installation).
Samuel (and all other pre-Nehemiah CPUs) can run i586 just fine.
As the original poster said, they're i686 with missing CMOV extension,
which in gcc-speak, is i586.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-14 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-13 11:44 kernel oops 2.4.24 Paul Symons
2004-01-13 18:59 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-01-13 19:13 ` David Rees
2004-01-14 8:23 ` Kernel oopses both 2.4.24 and 2.6.1 Roger Abrahamsson
2004-01-14 5:27 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2004-01-14 9:36 kernel oops 2.4.24 Paul Symons
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