Re: 2.0.28 Compile problem

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:38:05 +0100 (MET)


On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, John Vozza wrote:
>
> > {standard input}:768: Error: no such 386 instruction: `rdmsr'
> > {standard input}:770: Error: no such 386 instruction: `wrmsr'
> > make[1]: *** [time.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel'
> > make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
>
> Your tools are too old. Go get the latest libc/gcc/binutils. There was a
> patch for this that made it compilable for older folks...or you can get
> around it by including APM support.

there is no 'rdmsr' in 2.0.28, according to 'grep'.

It was only one 2.0 version that had 'rdmsr' in it, 2.0.26 i think. All
later kernels had the backwards compatible byte defines.

So the solution is to get either a new kernel, or new binutils.

-- mingo