On Wednesday 03 January 2007 02:20, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 02:12, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:43:00 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > The suggestions I've had so far which I have not yet tried: > > > > > > > > - Select a different x86 CPU in the config. > > > > - Unfortunately the C3-2 flags seem to simply > > > > tell GCC > > > > to schedule for ppro (like i686) and enabled > > > > MMX and SSE > > > > - Probably useless > > > > > > Actually, try this one. Try using something that doesn't like "cmov". > > > Maybe the C3-2 simply has some internal cmov bugginess. > > > > That's a good suggestion. Earlier C3s didn't have cmov so it's > > not entirely unlikely that cmov in C3-2 is broken in some cases. > > Configuring for P5MMX or 486 should be good safe alternatives. > > Or just C3 (not C3-2), which is what I've done. > > I'll report back whether it crashes or not.
This didn't help. After about 14 hours, the machine crashed again. cmov is not the culprit. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
