Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

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

On 19/09/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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 :-(


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