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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: mikpe@csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson)
Cc: FrankZhu@viatech.com.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM:Illegal instruction when mount nfs file systems using cyr ixIII
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:10:47 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15FNWJ-0005xB-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106272019.WAA29237@harpo.it.uu.se> from "Mikael Pettersson" at Jun 27, 2001 10:19:37 PM

> The problem is that VIA Cyrix III announces itself (via CPUID)
> as a "family 6" processor, i.e. i686 compatible. This is not
> completely accurate, since it doesn't implement the conditional
> move instruction. [Yeah, I know there's a CPUID feature flag for

Intel specifically state that you cannot use CMOV without checking
for it. Its actually a gcc/binutils tool bug. The CPU is right.

> To make the machine work you'll have to ensure that the kernel,
> user-space libraries and programs, and NFS-imported programs
> all are compiled for a lesser CPU than i686.

For RH 

	rpm -qa |grep ".i686*"

and update the packages listed with their i586/i386 ones. 

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-27 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-27 20:19 Mikael Pettersson
2001-06-27 22:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-06-28 18:39   ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-06-28 19:42     ` PROBLEM:Illegal instruction when mount nfs file systems using Alan Cox
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2001-06-27  9:42 PROBLEM:Illegal instruction when mount nfs file systems using cyr ixIII Frank Zhu (Shanghai)

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