On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:09:16PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > I have a *very* reproducable panic from my RLX Transmeta Blade when I try > to do a sysctl -a. It hits hw.crusoe.longrun and crashes the box. Since this > is in production I didn't get a core dump (I don't have a debug kernel around > since this is on a production server). Here's the info from the console: > > stack pointer = 0x10:0xc874cdfc > frame pointer = 0x10:0xc874ce0c > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = 174 (sysctl) > interrupt mask = none > trap number = 9 > panic: general protection fault > > I don't know if that helps, but there it is. > > If you want to look at the code that pertains, > src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c:1138
The problem turns out to be the fact that this CPU doesn't have longrun on it. I think there is a CPU flag that indicates longrun capability or not. I'm not sure what it is, or what it looks like, but I can provide some code (from a Linux package) that does the detection. -gordon
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