Hi Paolo On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:15 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2005 10:31, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > Hi Paolo > > > > Thanks a lot for your response and suggestions! I think the handling of > > the fpx registers' absence is the key - see attached patch. But please > > read on... > > > > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 17:12 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > On Sunday 24 April 2005 05:20, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > [...] > > Excellent point! I've done that and am getting this: > Hmm, what a foolish I am! Luckily I posted the suggestion even if it seemed > stupid... Uml is full of errors like that, sadly (you don't see them at a > glance). > > I just sent it for merging.
Fabulous! Thanks a lot. > [...] > > What I don't understand, though, is why panic didn't just kill the > > process rather than spinning in some endless loop. Any ideas? > Not really... panic on a real box *is* a spinning loop, but UML tricks it the > other way. The two possible problems here are: > > 1) The panic text does not go to the console: maybe it's too early, maybe > it's > the console code problems (which I'm already solving, I'm not rushing on them > since the change is invasive). > 2) The "tricks" has not been done yet. I see. Thanks for explaining. (although I suppose it's a bit beyond me. ;-) > Actually, the first problem should also affect the printk, but hey, it's a > bit > randomical (the console is not flushed on exit). > > From what I've read elsewhere, CMOV is not part of Intel's PentiumPro > > spec although Intel's PentiumPro implements it. So, the Samuel 2 is a > > true PentiumPro clone according to the specs but not in practice. > One question: when I'll allow to optimize UML for the processor it runs on > (like you do in i386 configuration), are you going to test the result? I > don't think I'll find anybody else with this config... Sure, if you have anything that you want tested specifically on a VIA C3 Samuel2, just let me know. (The box is going to be my new home fileserver and firewall - the latter in a UML instance, with disaster recovery in place the possible downtime if any should be acceptable.) Best regards Andree -- Andree Leidenfrost Sydney - Australia
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