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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 08:59:10AM -0700, John Clark wrote:
[snip]
> I did verify that 1.6 booted. The current project is a linux project,
> and so I have been occupied there. But I was not able to use the
> previous linux kernel built by someone else for the 686. I had
> to build a gcc for the 586, and then things seem to work. The
> failure seemed incredibly strange, on the order of an illegal opcode.

Early C3 designs lack cmpxchg8.  GCC -march=3Di686 generates code that
uses cmpxchg8, leading to the illegal opcode fauilure.  You may want to
target either 486 or 586.  Sufficiently new gcc supposedly has a c3
arch, which also works around this problem.

HTH, HAND.

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Kentaro A. Kurahone
SIGUSR1 Research and Development

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