Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:26:17 -0700 (MST) | From | Anthony Fok <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.1ac13/14 problem |
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS > > Memory: 62836k/65536k available (712k kernel code, 2312k reserved, 188k > > data, 56k init, 0k highmem) > > Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... > > > > Here it freezes forever... My cpu: > > > > vendor_id : CyrixInstead > > Ok I've been trying to fix the Cyrix/cpuid problems and it appears I > may have overdone it. I'll reread the code in detail. > > Alan
Hello Alan,
For your information, 2.4.1-ac12 works great on my Cyrix 6x86 P166+, and it properly recognizes the CPU as i586 class.
I haven't tried 2.4.1-ac13 on that machine yet, but I did attempt to boot 2.4.1-ac13 on an Winchip-C6 machine. It froze at the same place, i.e. "Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...". 2.4.1-ac12 works quite nicely on this machine, although I still experience random crashes on this machine. (Don't know if it is the kernel or hardware problem... I have been having troubles with this computer with just about any kernels since 2.2.17...) One of these days, when I have time, I'll post the Oops or the Bug.
Meanwhile, 2.4.x is rock solid on my Cyrix machine. :-)
Thanks,
Anthony
-- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering foka@ualberta.ca, foka@debian.org University of Alberta, Canada Debian GNU/Linux Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/
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