Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751982AbWISArg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:47:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751984AbWISArg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:47:36 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.224]:30396 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751982AbWISArf (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:47:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q6UFPeKbnOML787Zk/SXzgYVwNy1pSu3YSaYPYAaag2kIWKYS9YrCckhtyhiETXjjJs8xm6by5mbuhl4wBkWzHAkg1R3VBAgU1FmnIEOfZt4VUPbT1DbBLvR1OQN43AUHXWORPw9AjHgE7PcwthTbTbV+/hyDcnQNjTETybes80= Message-ID: <9a8748490609181747i9da3107q593ab99ced48bced@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:47:34 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , billm@melbpc.org.au, billm@suburbia.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490609181518j2d12e4f0l2c55e755e40d38c2@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490609181614r55178f1djab68eb48bd36f7de@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 37 On 19/09/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > > You can try booting with "no387 nofxsr" to get rid of at least _that_ > particular issue, but there might be other cases like that in the MMX > code, for example ("nofxsr" should disable both the FXSR and XMM > capabilities as far as the kernel is concerned). > > If that works (or gets you further), we should just make "no387" disable > FXSR by itself. > > Worth testing, and you can do it without even recompiling the kernel, > since we already have that kernel command line flag. > Booting with: vga=normal no387 nofxsr gets me no forther. These are all the messages I get: boot: 2.6.18rc7git2 vga=normal no387 nofxsr Loading 2.6.18rc7git2................................... BIOS data check successful Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. And then the system hangs and requires a power cycle. So unfortunately that does't help much :-( -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/