From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 still doesn't boot on i486..
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:57:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080404125743.GB29423@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18422.8628.510177.819697@harpo.it.uu.se>
* Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> wrote:
> > And now I wonder if I'm the only person in this world with i486
> > machine... ;)
>
> Just FYI, 2.6.23, 2.6.24 and 2.6.25-rc6 work fine on my i486DX4.
>
> However, it's clear from your .config fragment above that you've
> enabled features that cannot possibly exist on a 486 (APICs and MCE
> for starters) and there may be bugs related to that. I suggest
> trimming your .config and making it 486-specific.
apics should be auto-detect though. So if a .24 config was plugged into
.25 and the kernel broke that's still a regression - would be nice to
figure out which .config detail causes this problem.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-04 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-04 9:01 Michael Tokarev
2008-04-04 12:40 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-04-04 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-04-04 13:06 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-04 13:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
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