Re: is this a bug?

[Dr. Kelsey Hudson]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Thodoris Pitikaris wrote:

> As you will see in the attached file (it's a dmesg from the boot)
> I have an 1Ghz athlon cpu with a VIA KT133 on a gigabyte GA-7ZX
> motherboard with 100mhz SDRAM.When I compiled the kernel with
> cputype=Athlon I continiusly experienced this crash.When I compiled with
> cputype=i686 everything went smooth (OS is Redhat 7.1)

It's a bug in that screwed up compiler redhat shipped with 7.1. AFAIK, the
only difference between an athlon-specific kernel and an i686-specific
kernel are the options in the compiler command line when compiling the
kernel.

Is gcc 3.0 binary compatible with the stupid redhat compiler? If it is, I
would upgrade to that. I haven't, myself, because I simply don't know (and
can't find any information one way or the other) if binaries from the two
compilers are compatible. Someone who knows better, could you shed some
light on the subject?

 Kelsey Hudson                                           [e-mail]
 Software Engineer
 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               [phone]
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