Linux on 486

Yuri Per (yuri@pts.mipt.ru)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:38:24 +0300 (GMT+0300)


Hi, all!

Mark Hahn wrote:
> it seems like a lot of the problems in post-.60 kernels are being reported
> by people with 486's. and I haven't been able to replicate any of them
> on my p5. is there any chance that the processor-specific compilation
> (and code?) introduced around .60 is causing these problems?

Maybe the problem is in new cache-flushing code, introduced in kernel 1.3.47?
On the UMC 486SX this code hangs when first non-kernel process starts.

Yuri Per (yuri@pts.mipt.ru)