Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:28:34 -0500 | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ? |
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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.
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