From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:28:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:27:59 -0500 Received: from smtp1.mail.yahoo.com ([128.11.69.60]:45328 "HELO smtp1.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:27:56 -0500 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A5C8DB2.48A4A48@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:28:34 -0500 From: Paul Gortmaker X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rob@sysgo.de CC: Brian Gerst , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ? In-Reply-To: <01010922090000.02630@rob> <01010923324500.02850@rob> <3A5B98AB.9B6FABC6@didntduck.org> <01011000082300.03050@rob> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Kaiser wrote: > > The one I'm currently using is an old Olivetti 386SX with 5 MB, I also > tried two more boards, one 386SX, one 386DX, both with 8MB. All showed > the same behavior. I tested 2.4.0 on probably the exact same box - an Olivetti M300-05 386sx with 5MB and it came up ok, except that memory detection is off by a MB. (to be fixed in 2.4.1 or boot with mem= argument in 2.4.0) What might be important here is your gcc & binutils (as/gas) version, combined with a miscompile in something like __verify_write that doesn't get used on anything but 386 (and hence went undetected). Only thing strange on my box is that the kernel is compiled with gcc-2.7.2 which is officially unsupported but can be managed if you know what the gcc bugs are. Paul. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/