On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:42:01 +0800, Frank Zhu wrote:
>I use a PIII machine as the server and cyrixIII machine as the client.The
>kernel is 2.4.5.The distribute is red hat 7.1
>when i mount the nfs file system at the client it failed.The core file is
>created.using the gdb it report :
>Program terminated with signal 4(SIGILL),Illegal instruction
>#0 0x40003e28 in ??()
>
>If i change the cpu (CyrixIII) to PIII all is ok.
You don't say exactly where the failure occurs, but I suspect
that you're feeding i686-class machine code to your VIA Cyrix III.
The problem is that VIA Cyrix III announces itself (via CPUID)
as a "family 6" processor, i.e. i686 compatible. This is not
completely accurate, since it doesn't implement the conditional
move instruction. [Yeah, I know there's a CPUID feature flag for
CMOV. I also know gcc doesn't check it, and I suspect glibc
doesn't either.]
To make the machine work you'll have to ensure that the kernel,
user-space libraries and programs, and NFS-imported programs
all are compiled for a lesser CPU than i686.
/Mikael
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