Re: Raid code panic with kernel compiled for i486

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 13:25:03 EST

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Kaj-Michael Lang wrote:
>
> I was testing the 2.4.0 kernel and found out that when a kernel
> compiled for processors under P3 (i486, P2/Celeron) and booting it on a P3
> the kernel
> panics when it's tries to test different RAID5 xor algorithms.
>
> The panic looks something like this:
>
> ...
> raid5: measuring checksuming speed
> 8regs : 773.430 MB/sec
> 32regs : 562.356 MB/sec
> invalid operand: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0259c7d>]
> ...
>

Try 2.4.1-pre1. It's choking because SSE hasn't been enabled since it's
compiled for a 486.

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