From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Subject: Re: Linux 0.97 and fast 486: timing problem ? Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 00:40:30 GMT
cc1 in gcc 2.2.2d and gcc 2.2.2 is exactly the same thing. It should not
make any difference. But the header files changed quite a bit. Maybe
some inline stuffs are changed.
In article <64873@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt7080a@prism.gatech.EDU (Nathan I. Laredo) writes:
|> !!!I have a 486 with 256K cache and had no problem with any version
|> !!!of Linux, until I tried 0.97 today. 0.97 compiled OK but when I
|> !!!try to boot, it hangs just before printing out HD partitions data.
|> !!!If I boot at lower speed (8 Mhz vs. 33 Mhz) then it comes up OK.
|>
|> !!Just thought I would add my voice to Nhut's:
|> !!My 486/33 does exactly the same thing. I didn't know that I could
|> !!boot at a lower speed, is that A BIOS option? (Not that it
|> !!would be a real solution anyway)
|>
|> !It sounds like there must be something else you have in common than
|> !just having a fast machine. I have a 486/33 with 256k cache, 8 MB
|> !memory, ISA motherboard and SCSI hard drives and have no problem.
|> !Are you both using IDE hard drives?
|>
|> I was only able to reproduce this behavior when compiling the kernel
|> without the scsi support. Another variable: this only happened under
|> gcc 2.2.2d for me, not under gcc 2.2.2 so perhaps optimization under
|> 2.2.2d is too good, although I would assume that the problem is the
|> scsi code being omitted, thus without the baggage to slow the system
|> down the initilization fails.
|>
|> -Nathan Laredo, gt7080a@prism.gatech.edu
|> --
|> Anguna V. Ynerqb
|> Trbetvn Vafgvghgr bs Grpuabybtl, Ngynagn Trbetvn, 30332
|> hhpc: ...!{qrpink,ucynof,apne,cheqhr,ehgtref}!tngrpu!cevfz!tg7080n
|> Vagrearg: tg7080n@cevfz.tngrpu.rqh
-- H.J. Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.