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* Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2
@ 2006-09-18 22:18 Jesper Juhl
  2006-09-18 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 39+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Juhl @ 2006-09-18 22:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel Mailing List; +Cc: billm, billm, Linus Torvalds

Hi,

If I enable the math emulator in 2.6.18-rc7-git2 (only version I've
tried this with) and then boot the kernel with "no387" then I only get
as far as lilo's "...Booting the kernel." message and then the system
hangs.

The kernel is a 32bit kernel build for K8 and my CPU is a Athlon64 X2 4400+

If I boot the same kernel without the "no387" option, then it boots
and runs just fine, so it seems the math emulator code is lethal on
newer CPU's :-(

Now, I need some help debugging this. The crash happens very early and
doesn't result in anything printed to the screen (I guess it's too
early to call printk()) - How on earth can I get a lead on what's
going wrong?  Any help would be appreciated.

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* Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2
@ 2006-09-20  8:15 linux
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 39+ messages in thread
From: linux @ 2006-09-20  8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sergio; +Cc: linux, linux-kernel

> Fine :),  My (12 year old) 486DX2 already don't need Math-emu. I just
> don't see how in a computer like that will be installed a kernel 2.6 .
> So why code of math-emu isn't dropped ? 

Google for "386EX".  There are any number of embedded boards
based on an this FPU-less 386 which people like to run Linux on.

There's more to the world than personal computers; the fact that the
Linux kernel runs almost unmodified on most of the largest computers in
the world (http://www.top500.org/stats/27/os/) and some of the dinkiest
(http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/linuxwatch/linuxwatch.html)
is a source of considerable pride.

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2006-09-18 22:18 Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 Jesper Juhl
2006-09-18 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-18 23:14   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-18 23:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-19  0:47       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-19  2:18         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-18 23:49 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-19  0:02   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-19 12:28   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-09-20  0:48     ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-09-20 22:31       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-09-19  8:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-19  8:31   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-19 21:14   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-19 22:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-19 22:16       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-19 22:44         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-03  2:16       ` [PATCH/RFC] " Randy Dunlap
2006-10-03  2:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03  3:24           ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-03 10:05             ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-03 14:54               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 10:11             ` [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 II -- it's terminally broken Andi Kleen
2006-10-03 11:53               ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 14:48               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03  4:38           ` [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 Randy Dunlap
2006-10-03 11:30             ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 15:10             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 16:23               ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-03 16:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 16:49                   ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-03 16:51                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 19:24                       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-04 19:43                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 20:02                           ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-04 22:00                             ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 21:44                               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-20  8:16     ` Andi Kleen
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