Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266305AbUANF3X (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:29:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266304AbUANF3X (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:29:23 -0500 Received: from delerium.codemonkey.org.uk ([81.187.208.145]:15831 "EHLO delerium.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266305AbUANF3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:29:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:27:43 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Nick Craig-Wood Cc: Paul Symons , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: kernel oops 2.4.24 Message-ID: <20040114052743.GD23845@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Nick Craig-Wood , Paul Symons , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" References: <798DD0DBF172864C8CC752175CF42BA326C8B2@pat.aberdeen.paradigmgeo.com> <20040113185948.GA17867@axis.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040113185948.GA17867@axis.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 24 On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:59:48PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > > I am trying to run Gentoo on this hardware, and have had problems from the > > start, with respect to compiling things like Gentoo. The hardware is a > > little bit of an oddity, because i read that it is classed as i686, yet it > > doesn't support the cmov opcode. All my compile optimisations have been at > > best i586 as a result. > > I wonder if you are thinking of the Nehemiah (the C3 mark 2) rather > than the Samuel which is on that board. As far as I'm aware its only > safe to use i386 code and that is what we've been using very > succesfully (with a Debian/stable installation). Samuel (and all other pre-Nehemiah CPUs) can run i586 just fine. As the original poster said, they're i686 with missing CMOV extension, which in gcc-speak, is i586. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/