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Re: 4.01 panic/lock issues?



abs%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:

>       I think we are in violent agtreement here - we should be
>       defaulting to -m68020-60 for userland and kernels which
>       need to be able to run on multiple processor types...

Kernels are built with -msoft-float, so -m68040 (or -m68060) is
still safe even on 020/030 because no 040 specific FP insn is in kernel.

The problem is that 040 FP instructions in userland cause a kernel panic
(or SIGILL), i.e. userland binaries should use at least -m68020-60.
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Izumi Tsutsui


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