From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:13:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:13:04 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:6669 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:13:04 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Cyrix III processor and kernel boot problem Date: 9 Feb 2003 13:22:16 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <3E43C79A.2010506@autistici.org> <1044631346.14350.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <1044631346.14350.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> By author: Alan Cox In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 14:50, c1cc10 wrote: > > I've found out that the Cyrix III has no CMOV instruction and that this > > could be the problem. > > It is > > gcc told to build for i686 assumes that cmov is present. Much of the > code advantage for i686 comes from cmov so it makes sense to do that > I guess. > Yep. The other name for the option, -mach=pentiumpro, really is the more proper name. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: cris ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64