I have an UMC 486SX/40 based motherboard (I know it's weird), and the
kernels 1.3.67 and 1.3.68 don't work on it, when compiled with "processor
type 486" (I tried both ELF and a.out, gcc 2.7.0 and 2.6.3). They behave
very funny, up to the message "VFS mounted root" it works as usual, and
from then on I can only single-step trace the booting process with
ctrl-alt-del. (I.e., after each pressing of ctrl-alt-del one command
executes, if I don't press anything, nothing happens.)
When I used "processor type 386", it works fine. Well, fine. As I write
this, I see that on the 1.3.67 ps xua dies with Floating point exception..
I think the new kernels will need some more twiddling in regard of 486SX
processors..
Hynek
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