> On boot of 2.1.125, I get an oops after this line:
>
> calibrating APIC timer ... invalid operand: 0000
>
> I don't have any idea why a rdtsc might cause an oops, or where the invalid
> operand message came from, or even why the APIC timer is being calibrated on
> my single-processor Cyrix 6x86 133MHz PR166+. I still want to use 2.1.125
> though, for fbcon + KGI, so however I can fix this, I'll be willing to try.
Just edit the top Makefile and recompile for UP by commenting out the
"SMP=1" line. The Cyrix 6x86 doesn't have a TSC so it returns an invalid
instruction. Perhaps the APIC code should check the X86_FEATURE_TSC
flag...
Cheers,
Rafael
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