On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 22:43:25 +0200, > Gland Vador <glandva...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 05.04.2010 14:48, Dan Horák wrote: >> > >> > I was trying to install i686 variant of F-13 to an Alix board (2D13 with >> > Geode LX) and got into troubles. The kernel boots fine, but when it >> > should start initramfs the kernel panics. Everything works well when >> > using complete F-12 environment and when using F-12 kernel+initramfs >> > with F-13 rootfs the initramfs stuff runs well, but when I try to >> > manually chroot into the F-13 from the dracut shell I get an "Invalid >> > instruction" exception. I though last change in x86 CPU support was in >> > F-12 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support) and it >> > explicitly talks about Geode LX as still supported. So the question is >> > whether F-13 should still work on Geode LX? >> > >> >> Sorry to reopen this old topic, but the conclusion is not obvious. The >> F13 is out and it seems to have lost support for the Geode LX CPU >> (cf.http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/5708.html), due to the use of the >> NOPL instruction by GCC. >> >> Will this CPU be supported during F13 and above or should I search for a >> new distribution ? > > I don't believe there was any intentional change in supported CPUs for F13. > If it was supposed to work in F12, I think it is supposed to work in F13. > Did you file a bug against gcc?
It does work in F-12, the response for the lack of support in F-13 was 'deal with it'. There is suppose to be a patch to emulate it in the kernel but apparently it won't go upstream until its a generic infra patch that can allow support of other emulated bits in other cpus in a generic way. So its possible it will come back, but I don't hold up hope of a quick resolution. Which leaves us in a big predicament as to how we're going to support the 1.5 million odd XO-1s out there moving forward. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
