Re: Illegal instruction
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:44:45AM +0200, Per Kristian Gjermshus wrote:
> Since the precompiled kernel I found did not have support for psaux,
> which is required for X, I compiled my own kernel from a fresh cvs
> checkout. The new kernel keeps giving me messages like this:
>
> [tar:245] Illegal instruction 0100017c at 2ac9849c ra=00000001
> [ls:246] Illegal instruction 0100017c at 2ac9849c ra=00000000
>
> I saw in the archives that Florian might have a patch for this
> problem, and I assume this patch has been applied to the precompiled
> kernel. Is there a problem with this patch since it has not been
> applied to the cvs-tree? Is this patch available somewhere?
Yep - You need the "fast-sysmips" patch - The illegal instructions
you see are syscalls which trashes some registers.
Flo
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Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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