Re: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot.

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
30 Dec 1998 02:32:43 GMT


In article <368874C0.10A18612@bleh.org>, <nads@bleh.org> wrote:
>
>I also have a cyrix (686/200, not MediaGX) and I recompiled without SMP (I
>didn't even have SMP in 2.1.132, i guess the patch enabled it by default
>again) I still experienced an oops.

Recompile the kernel as a i486.

It seems that the Cyrix chips do not do "rdtsc", even when they call
themselves 686's.

We may need to have a special case for chips without "rdtsc".

Linus

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