Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Bob_Tracy(0000)" wrote:
> > AMD K6-III 450 running a 2.4.19 kernel with vesafb, XFree86 4.1.0, and
> > a USB mouse works fine. Same setup with a 2.5.54 kernel does a cold
> > reboot when I type "startx".
>
> I saw exactly the same. In my case it appears to be due to miscompilation
> of a particular sysenter patch which went into 2.5.53. If you're using
> gcc-2.91.66 (aka `kgcc') then try 2.95.x instead.
I'm running gcc-2.95.3 here. Is that a "sufficiently correct" version
to avoid the miscompilation problem?
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