linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

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Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:00:40 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, akpm <akpm@...l.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 22:02 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jesper Juhl:
> > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd: line 4: 1491 Illegal instruction    /usr/sbin/sshd
> >
> > Ok, I bet you have your sshd compiled to use MMX instructions
> > unconditionally.
> >
> Probably, I haven't checked.

Or we aren't correctly masking all the other cpuid bits we should in
this case..

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