Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

From: Sergio Monteiro Basto
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 19:50:37 EST


On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 00:18 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I enable the math emulator in 2.6.18-rc7-git2 (only version I've
> tried this with) and then boot the kernel with "no387" then I only get
> as far as lilo's "...Booting the kernel." message and then the system
> hangs.
>

I think, math emulation is for 486 and older. 486 DX2 was the first one
who have math co processor, on earlier processor it should be disable .


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Sérgio M. B.

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