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From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 instability with 2.6.1{8,9}
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:48:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701011648.55460.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070101160158.GA26547@deepthought>

On Monday 01 January 2007 16:01, Ken Moffat wrote:
>  Hi, I've been running an athlon64 in 64-bit mode without problems,
> up to and incluing 2.6.19.1.  A couple of weeks ago I decided to use
> it for testing x86 builds, since then it's been nothing but trouble
> in 32-bit mode.  It still works fine when I boot it in 64-bit mode.

Obviously papering over a severe bug, but why is it necessary for you to run a 
32bit kernel to test 32bit userspace? If your 64bit kernel is stable, use the 
IA32 emulation surely?

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-01 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-01 16:01 Ken Moffat
2007-01-01 16:48 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2007-01-01 17:07   ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-01 19:13     ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-01 19:45       ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-01-02 17:25 ` Len Brown
2007-01-02 18:04   ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-02 18:42     ` Len Brown
2007-01-02 19:34       ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-06 22:04         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-07 14:26           ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-15 16:29             ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-25 23:56               ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-31 21:36                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-01-31 23:26                   ` Ken Moffat

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