Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 19/09/06, Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio@sergiomb.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 00:18 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I enable the math emulator in 2.6.18-rc7-git2 (only version I've
> > tried this with) and then boot the kernel with "no387" then I only get
> > as far as lilo's "...Booting the kernel." message and then the system
> > hangs.
> >
>
> I think, math emulation is for 486 and older. 486 DX2 was the first one
> who have math co processor, on earlier processor it should be disable .
>
Yes, it's mainly there for CPU's that don't have a math co-processor,
but it's also there for the cases where the math co-processor is
broken or where for some other reason you may not want to use it - so
it really should work...  Sure, it may be slow as hell compared to
hardware, but if it's there and I can select it then it should at
least be functional.


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