From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Jacek Lipkowski <sq5bpf@acid.ch.pw.edu.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch to make 2.4.32 work on i486 again
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:21:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060202212121.GA27974@dmt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060201052006.GB7142@w.ods.org>
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:20:06AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:29:05PM +0100, Jacek Lipkowski wrote:
> > Booting the 2.4.32 kernel compiled for a i486 on an i486 box fails,
> > because "Kernel compiled for Pentium+, requires TSC feature!" (printed
> > from check_config() include/asm-i386/bugs.h). To reproduce, select 486 in
> > the kernel configuration and grep CONFIG_X86_TSC .config
> >
> > Seems strange that no one noticed this, am i the only one still using 486
> > boxes? :)
>
> perhaps :-)
> It's been more than one year since I last booted mine. However, I believe
> I came through this bug by accident while compiling a kernel of a VIA Eden
> CPU, then I realized it should be compiled as i586 and forgot about the
> bug.
>
> > Jacek
> >
> > Simple patch against vanilla 2.4.32:
>
> Thanks. I've queued it for the next hotfix.
> Marcelo, I've put it in -upstream if you want.
Patch is correct indeed - thanks Willy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-02 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 22:29 patch to make 2.4.32 work on i486 again Jacek Lipkowski
2006-01-31 22:37 ` Grant Coady
2006-02-01 5:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-02 21:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2006-02-01 10:28 ` Mikael Pettersson
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