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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Jacek Lipkowski <sq5bpf@acid.ch.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: patch to make 2.4.32 work on i486 again
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 06:20:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060201052006.GB7142@w.ods.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0601312313050.6477@acid.ch.pw.edu.pl>

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.

Regards,
Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-01  5:21 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 [this message]
2006-02-02 21:21   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-02-01 10:28 ` Mikael Pettersson

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