From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:59:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:58:52 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:64004 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:58:46 -0400 Subject: Re: PROBLEM:Illegal instruction when mount nfs file systems using To: bernds@redhat.com (Bernd Schmidt) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:51:41 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), mikpe@csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson), FrankZhu@viatech.com.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Bernd Schmidt" at Jun 29, 2001 01:02:24 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > It's a bug. -march=i6868 does not 'target an Intel P6 family chip, ...' > > It happens to work because the error in reading the docs was never triggered > > by intel removing cmov from a cpu as the reserved the right to do > > Pedantically you may be right, but it's not a very useful interpretation of > the situation. Would it make you happier if -march=i686 was documented as > generating cmov instructions? IMO it's only a manual bug if at all. Its certainly too late to do anything about and I wouldnt suggest changing it at all. It probably should be documented however. Alan