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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 w/ AMD (compile probs)
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 13:31:23 GMT
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dhollist@iphase.com (David Hollister) writes:

>I was told by the guy who got me using NetBSD 1.0 that he seemed to recall
>hearing about some problems with people who had AMD CPUs that during large
>compiles, that the compiler would occasionally fail with "internal errors"
>and signals 6 and 11 (at least that's what I get).  After successive makes,
>it does work, but it's quite annoying.  He told me that he seemed to recall
>seeing something about a BIOS option change or something to that effect,
>perhaps something to do with floating point handling.

i know that problem from linux and it always came from too fast BIOS
settings (too less waitstates or so) - try it out - increase your number of
waits in the setup - and (i hope) it will run - i had the same problem and
it went away (gcc is a good detector for too less waits)


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