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Bug#464962: immediate crash on boot on TM5800



H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Okay, the faulting instruction is the following:
>
> c0383360:       0f 1f 40 00             nopl   0x0(%eax)
>
> The Crusoe code morphing software apparently doesn't recognize these  
> "long noops", and (presumably) the rest of the hinting NOOP group.  gcc  
> didn't use to generate them, and Crusoe/Efficeon generally do not  
> benefit from code alignment anyway.  I suspect the best thing to do is  
> to use either a 586 kernel or build a dedicated Crusoe kernel without  
> code alignment.

If the debian kernel team concurs with this let me know and I'll arrange
for d-i to install the -486 build for crusoe.

(Will suck for upgraders tho..)

-- 
see shy jo

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