linux-kernel - Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

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Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:49:51 +0100
From:	Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	billm@...bpc.org.au, billm@...urbia.net
Subject: Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 00:18 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I enable the math emulator in 2.6.18-rc7-git2 (only version I've
> tried this with) and then boot the kernel with "no387" then I only get
> as far as lilo's "...Booting the kernel." message and then the system
> hangs.
> 

I think, math emulation is for 486 and older. 486 DX2 was the first one
who have math co processor, on earlier processor it should be disable .


-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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