On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Finn Thain wrote: > > I'll see if I can come up with a kernel having a suitable initramfs.
OK, here it is. Boot this and hopefully it will tell you if you CPU is buggy. http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/vmlinux-040-test.gz No command line arguments are needed. No initrd is needed either since it uses an initramfs. The test program runs upon boot, and no interaction is necessary (or possible). It quickly detects an FPU emulation issue on my LC 475 (68LC040 mask set 2E23G). Whereas, even after 10 minutes or so, no problem was detected with my PowerBook 190cs (68LC040). I tested a Quadra (68040) and it passed this test too. The source code is available*, in case anyone wants to look through it and confirm that it really tests for the bug in question, and my results are not due to some quirk of the LC 475 or whatever else. This kernel only boots Macs because I don't know what other machines might be affected. I don't think it has any buggy drivers. HTH. Finn * http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/sw/040test/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
