------- Comment From pfsmor...@br.ibm.com 2015-06-11 11:47 EDT-------
The exception occurs in the normal.mod, not in the kernel part of GRUB. I 
compared the old and new gcc normal.mod versions and found this small change:

14978c14978
<     8a08:     7f e1 07 19     stxvw4x vs63,r1,r0
---
>     8a08:     7f e1 01 ce     stvx    v31,r1,r0
15512c15512
<     8fc0:     7f e1 06 19     lxvw4x  vs63,r1,r0
---
>     8fc0:     7f e1 00 ce     lvx     v31,r1,r0

Both stxvw4x and lxvw4x are VSX instructions. We already have a patch to
avoid crashes with those instructions but for some reason it's not
enough. I'm going to add a flag in CFLAGS in order to disable VSX at
all.

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