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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:00:33 -0500
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Subject: Linux PPC User Digest V56 #9


Linux PPC User Digest      Wednesday, July 9 2003      Volume 56 Number 009



In this issue:

  IBM 1.4.1 PPC processor  workaround: people mi...  James Gunning <James.Gunn

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:06:40 +1000
From: James Gunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM 1.4.1 PPC processor  workaround: people might like to know this

Folks,
    the new IBM 1.4.1 jit dies on many PPC machines: here's the
workaround (simpler than Kevin's funky kernel recompile).
James.
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From: Neil Masson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM 1.4.1 PPC Core Dumps

Erik R. Jensen wrote:

 > I get core dumps with the new IBM 1.4.1 PPC 32bit version.
 > I have the IBM 1.3.1 PPC and Blackdown's 1.3.1 PPC working
 > perfectly on the same machine. The system is a G3 powerbook
 > (pismo). The kernel version is 2.4.20, and the libc version
 > is 2.2.5. Does anyone know what the problem is? People I
 > have talked with on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list are
 > having similar problems with the same JVM on their PPC boxes.

There is a workaround, which is to set the following environment
variable:

export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE= 6

which will force the 604 class cpu code to be employed.

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