Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:09:27 -0500 | From | Tim Walberg <> | Subject | Two oddities with 2.2.13ac1 |
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Haven't had a chance to dig into these too much yet, but here's a couple problems I had:
1) setting CONFIG_X86_FX=y resulted in a link time error (unresolved symbol __buggy_fxsr_alignment from line 85 in include/asm-i386/bugs.h) which looks intentional - why it happened on my system I don't know... Looks like it's code that's intended to be optimized out if certain conditions apply; but it wasn't optimized out on my box (maybe due to the use of pgcc -O6 -Os?).
2) after I got the kernel built successfully with CONFIG_X86_CPU_OPTIMIZATIONS=y, trying to rebuild the VMware modules failed - compiles are ok, but the insmod step results in an undefined symbol best_memset - maybe someone forgot to export a symbol somewhere? Could also be a VMWare problem, so I'll pursue that route as well. Problem disappeared when I set CONFIG_X86_CPU_OPTIMIZATIONS=n.
System info:
Pentium II (Deschutes) 128MB RedHat 6.0 base originally pgcc 2.95.1
Any input you can provide would be appreciated. Don't hesitate to ask if you need further info...
tw
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