Bug#443979: Package: installation-reports, soft-cpu???

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

Regarding the failure to load Debian 2.6 kernels on a Geode system...

Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 09-03-2008 om 21:32 schreef Frans Pop:
> > This is obviously not so much an installer issues, but more a kernel issue.

Agreed.  But finding this report I decided to add to it.  Feel free to
reassign this to a more appropriate project.

> > Somewhere along the line the kernel changed in a way that is incompatible 
> > with your hardware, either the (upstream) kernel code or the kernel config.
> > 
> > Comparing the kernel configs of that FC8 kernel and the Debian 2.6.24 kernel 
> > could give us some clues then.
> 
> The first thing to check,
> would be the math co-processor emulation support in the kernel.

The DSL-N 2.6.12 kernel boots okay and reports the following flags.

  dsl@dslbox:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
  processor       : 0
  vendor_id       : Geode by NSC
  cpu family      : 5
  model           : 1
  model name      : Cx486DLC
  stepping        : 0
  cpu MHz         : 332.052
  fdiv_bug        : no
  hlt_bug         : no
  f00f_bug        : no
  coma_bug        : no
  fpu             : yes
  fpu_exception   : yes
  cpuid level     : 1
  wp              : yes
  flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx mmxext 3dnowext
  3dnow
  bogomips        : 647.16

AFAIK the fpu flag indicates a math co-processor.

Bob