On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:30:14PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: > Hi Igor! > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > > The first problem was that my computer generated a general protection fault > > in the i386/intel/pmap.c::pmap_boostrap() function where the code was trying > > to modify the %cr4 register. I have a K6-III which pretends to support the > > PGE extension (judging from the cpuid output), the code was trying to enable > > the flag for this feature in the %cr4 register and that generated the GPF. > > It seems that I have the same problem, but I've got an K6-2. So that might be > K6 > family error.
Good news! It is not a problem with the K6 family of processors!!! I have the same problem on my Xeon. However, unlike you, Igor, I did not crash while setting the cr4 register but when enabling the page tables; that is to say, setting cr0 from the function oskit/x86/main.c:paging_enable. -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
