Re: 2.1.106 fail to boot CRC Error

Perry Harrington (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 02:11:07 -0400 (EDT)


Ummm...
That 686 checksum code was for TCP checksums.. Not booting. It is
important for the TCP code to be fast as hell.

On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Jon Ellis wrote:

> >
> >Didn't have a problem...
> >
> >: leisner@compaq;uname -
> >Linux compaq.home 2.1.106 #1 Sat Jun 13 22:55:13 EDT 1998 i486 unknown
> >
>
> The problem code is only for 686. New (assembler) code was added to do
> the checksum calc. on 686.... why bother? It only gets run once and
> doesn't seem slow to me.
>
> The same code was in one of the 'ac-?' patches and didn't seem to cause
> problems so i presume that linus has had a mis-patch somewhere.
>
> j.
>
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