Well, I've never seen this before, but from the name of the test I'd 
guess that
the kqemu code is trying to determine whether the processor is Big-Endian
or Little-Endian for byte order (and possibly bit order). Byte order 
should be
fairly easy to determine, but I can't think offhand of how to test bit 
order.

Anyway, it sounds like either there was a system error (e.g., parity 
glitch or
returned values didn't match what was expected due to RAM failure), or
several tests were run and the results were conflicting. It seems to know
this was an Intel family processor (Little-Endian byte order). Is this a
stock off-the-shelf system, or some kind of exotic homebrew? Try running
a full memory test (I think one comes with Ubuntu or GRUB) just to rule
out a RAM problem.

andy wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu Studio (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn).
>
> Meanwhile, I'm trying to configure kqemu and do not understand the
> following output:
>
>         big/little test failed
>         Source path       /usr/src/modules/kqemu
>         C compiler        gcc
>         Host C compiler   gcc
>         make              make
>         host CPU          i386
>         
>         kernel sources    /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-lowlatency/build
>         kbuild type       2.6
>
> What's the failure?
>
> Thanks.
>
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