Re: VIA Ezra CentaurHauls

[P]

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
Hello

We have a platform with the above processor, and we happened to have 2
revisions thereof: stepping 8 and 10. With stepping 8 we are getting
"random" application crashes (segfaults), sometimes with kernel-Oopses.
The distribution is Debian-Woody.
Interesting, so stepping 10 is OK?

I saw some messages on the Debian
mailing list about problems with exactly this CPU, however, it was not
related to different revisions (stepping), perhaps, the author only had
 / tried stepping 8. The fix was to upgrade libc.
so is it a glibc bug or CPU bug?

I've done this (to
version libc6_2.3.1-16, but it didn't help. Any ideas?
You could search for CMOV instructions on your system,
which could cause wierdness, like:
find / -perm +111 -type f |
while read bin; do
    objdump --disassemble $bin 2>/dev/null |
    grep -q cmov && echo "$bin has cmov"
done
Note C3 Nehemiah do have CMOV (but no 3dnow).

P�draig.

--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]