Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon

[TimO]

adrian wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > There's almost certainly more than that. I'd love to have a report on my
> > asm-only version, but even so I suspect it also requires the 3dnow stuff,
> 
> I tried all three versions, and no freezes.  I forgot to mention the tests
> were run on a model 2 Athlon (original slot K7, .18 micron).  The kernel
> is compiled with 3dnow support.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrian
> 
>

Mine freezes with both versions of C versions, haven't tried the asm
yet.
gcc-2.95.2 and glibc-2.1.3 both of which are compiled for 486.

-- 
===============processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 2
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 751.000719
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
features        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 1500.77

-- Tim