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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: re: GCC 2.3.3 + kernels
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In article <1l5h8tINN218b@obelix.uni-muenster.de>, fraune@math.uni-muenster.de (Joerg Fraune, Informatik) writes:
|> > 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.
I also found this problem present with 386DX/Cyrix-387 and 486DX.
|> 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 ?
Besides the probing problem, I didn't see problem with the above combinations yet.
Bruce: any idea?
|> Joerg Fraune
|> Thomas Pundt <pundt@math.uni-muenster.de>
Holger
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