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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA939 ; Wed, 10 Feb 93 01:01:17 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!uni-muenster.de!jacquard!fraune From: fraune@math.uni-muenster.de (Joerg Fraune, Informatik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: re: GCC 2.3.3 + kernels Date: 8 Feb 1993 11:47:41 GMT Organization: Westf. Wilh.-Universitaet Muenster, Germany. Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1l5h8tINN218b@obelix.uni-muenster.de> Reply-To: fraune@math.uni-muenster.de NNTP-Posting-Host: jacquard.uni-muenster.de > Can anyone tell me what the deal is with GCC 2.3.3 and kernels? I can't > get any kernels I compile with the 2.3.3 to work. ref.tfs.com has this same > problem. Anyone know why? A friend of mine and I had problems with new NPX-driver. The kernel hung upon reboot after announcing the floppy-drives. We figured out that the problem was the new NPX-probing-routine, especially the division-by-zero-test. Seemingly, the NPX didn't generate the expected exception-13. We provisorically worked around the problem by commenting out the offending probing-routine. Additionally, my 386 hung on heavy systemload (did this with the original 386bsd-0.1-kernel as well as with the patchkit 0.1 and 0.2 kernels. After forcing 386bsd to use the NPX-emulator instead of my (ULSI-)387 anything works fine. Did other users experience similar problems with the ULSI-NPX ? Joerg Fraune Thomas Pundt <pundt@math.uni-muenster.de>