Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:10:21 +1100 |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:26:08 +0100 (BST), davej@suse.de wrote: >I actually thought that the i686 target was the same as the i586 target >with different instruction scheduling rules. Seems my judgement was off. >/me goes to read gcc docs
Sounds like you got caught by the conditional move instruction that is generated for 686. It causes oops on 586, and somewhere in the oops or printk code you hit another cmove. Double fault, kernel hang.
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