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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fresh compiled kernels no longer boot..?
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:02:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c59d02fd7cee9771479bedea1f1d2d52@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <315a85435b9323e1c64feb3b3535074f@plan9.bell-labs.com>

On Sun Jan 25 17:38:41 EST 2004, presotto@closedmind.org wrote:
> The 486 problems shouldn't bother a K6 which is a pentium comnpatible machine.
> However, jmk has already fixed that for 486's.  If you want, you could comment
> out lines 900 and 901 in 9/pc/devarch.c and see if it helps.
>
> Unfortinately, I don't have a matching processor.  I did make a cpu kernel from
> the distribution and it worked on a Xeon but that doesn't tell you much I guess.

The DX value from the cpuid instruction shows the processor has the capabilities
which were missing on Lucio's SiS processor and causing it to reboot, so that shouldn't
be the problem.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-25 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25 22:05 Axel Belinfante
2004-01-25 22:37 ` David Presotto
2004-01-25 23:02   ` jmk [this message]
2004-01-25 23:12     ` Axel Belinfante
2004-01-25 23:43       ` Axel Belinfante
2004-01-25 23:52         ` jmk
2004-01-26  0:13           ` Axel Belinfante
2004-01-26  0:52             ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-11 23:30               ` matt
2004-02-12  2:54                 ` boyd, rounin

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