Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc3-O4

Alan Cox
2004-08-10T17:31:49Z

On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 18:10, Lee Revell wrote:
> OK, with CONFIG_M586TSC, I am getting a lot of lockups. A few happened
> during normal desktop use, and it locks up hard when starting jackd.
> Could this have anything to do with the ALSA drivers (which I am
> compiling seperately from ALSA cvs) detecting my build system as i686?
> I have read that the C3 is more like a 486 (with MMX & 3DNow) than a
> 686.

The C3 is a full 686 instruction set. The kernel is different because
the GNU tool people couldn't read manuals and once the error was made
it was a bit too late to fix it.

Thus ALSA deciding its 686 is fine.