Re: pegasosII crash at boot with -current

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Hello,

On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Allen Briggs wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:29:03PM +0100, Frank Wille wrote:
>> But our G4s should be able to execute AltiVec code (I have a 7447A)  
>> - maybe
>> something is not correctly set up at this early point in main()?
>
> Should the kernel be able to execute AltiVec code?  Or should it be
> treated like the FPU?

I dimly remember running into the same problem years ago when gcc3  
( or was it 4 ? ) started to emit altivec instructions if the CPU  
flags allowed it to. The solution was to build all kernels with -mno- 
altivec when using -mcpu=74xx.
IIRC the consensus back then was to treat altivec like the FPU and  
don't use it in the kernel.

have fun
Michael

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