linux-kernel - Re: FPU emulation broken in 2.6.28-rc8 ?

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Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:32:27 +0100
From:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
To:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FPU emulation broken in 2.6.28-rc8 ?


Hi,

It took me a while to admit to this possiblity, but indeed, it 
seems that FPU emulation is broken again. It's happened two times
before. 2.6.27 is NOT affected. 

	Roger.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:56:20AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> I'm getting messages similar to: 
> 
> FPU emulator: unknown prefix byte 0x00,
> FPU emulator: probably due to self-modifying code (emulation impossible)
> FPU ........: internal error type 0x0126
> At 00000017:0000
>  SW: b=1 st=0 es=1 sf=1 cc=0010 ef=111111
>  CW: ic=0 rc=00 pc=11 ien=0     ef=111111
> 
> 
> (I cut-pasted the above from something I found on google, relating
> to 2.4.7, where the FPU emulator was fixedin 2.4.8. 
> In my case "internal error" was 126, just like in '2001, In
> my case I have "at 17:0", wwhereas in '01 it was reported "at
> 23:206". And the formatting changed a bit, which I corrected. 
> I don't have all the different flags available. If this doesn't
> provide enough hints, I'll have to figure those out fro you again.
> 
> I'm trying to set up a thin client, which runs on a geode, which
> apparently doesn't have a FPU.... (/proc/cpuinfo mentions the flag 
> "fpu", what does THAT mean?)
> 
> Oh, it seems as if some "state" is involved. booting init=/bin/bash
> works, but allowing the system to boot a bit further leads to the
> login shell (/bin/bash) getting killed due to the FPU emulator 
> problem.... 
> 
> 	Roger. 
> 
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