From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 10 8:35:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F76D37B401; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADF643E42; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23548; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:35:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gAAGZLc46459; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:35:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15822.35528.984561.534904@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:35:20 -0500 (EST) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ev4/5/6 issue ? In-Reply-To: <51801.1036863194@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <51801.1036863194@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > An alphastation255 has found its way to my lab but I'm having a spot of > trouble getting it into workable state. > > I installed an iso which jhb@ had produced and the system boots. > > But make(1) coredumps with illegal instruction. > > I've tried to compile a make(1) on beast (setting CPUTYPE="") but it > also core-dumps. I pressume that's because the libs are ev6. > An illegal instruction trap occurs when the processor attempts to execute an instruction which it does not recognize. We attempt to fixup the most common instructions in the kernel (mainly so you can run the acrobat reader binary on older alphas..) However, beast is a 21264a and it supports all valid alpha instructions. So rather than a bug in the opdec code, I suspect that the compiler or linker is emitting bad code, or something else weird is happening. What instruction is causing the trap? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message