From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083AbYDDNEb (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:04:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760888AbYDDM6A (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:58:00 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:52926 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760889AbYDDM57 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:57:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:57:43 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Michael Tokarev , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.24 still doesn't boot on i486.. Message-ID: <20080404125743.GB29423@elte.hu> References: <47F5EE6A.6080705@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <18422.8628.510177.819697@harpo.it.uu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18422.8628.510177.819697@harpo.it.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.1 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.1 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% [score: 0.0126] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Mikael Pettersson 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