>On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>>
>> Hmm --- my system (asus sp3g, ncr53c810 on board, amd5x86-P75, 1G SCSI-Disk,
>> SCSI-CDROM) is not able to boot 2.0.21 nor 2.0.20.
>> Note: 2.0.0 up to 2.0.18 boots without any problem and 2.0.18 is really
>> stable. All kernels are optimized for i486 and 53c7,8xx is used.
>Ok, I asked Werner to send me a disassembly of the affected function, and he
>definitely had some bad code produced by his compiler for the new inline
>assembly code to handle semaphores.
[snip]
>There is at least _one_ reasonably recent version of gcc out there that
>provably produces bad code when it comes to inline asm register clobbers, and
>I'd ask people to take a hard look at their compiler if they don't have a
>unpatched gcc. It looks like the standard gcc's are ok, but I wonder about
>gcc-2.7.2.1 (which reportedly also fixes the strength-reduce bug, and if they
>used the same bugfix as Werners version did, it may be suspect).
Just for the record, I am running 2.0.21 compiled with 2.7.2.1 on a
near-identical system to Werner Fink's: AMD 5x83-133, asus pvi-486sp3,
ncr 53c810, 1 Gb Conner SCSI disk and SCSI cd-rom. So far it's been up
three days without problems.
I have been using the 2.7.2.l3 un-official snapshot (by H.J.Lu) for a
while, also without problems, but recently upgraded to the official
2.7.2.1.
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