From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 20:40:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4137616A4CE; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063BE43D31; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:40:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2FKe0XD042066; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j2FKe0Nu042065; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:39:59 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jon Noack Message-ID: <20050315203959.GB41996@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <422ACE0B.4060503@lumachedelcervello.cjb.net> <422B502C.6090003@chillt.de> <20050312022324.GA4899@hub.freebsd.org> <423363C4.60508@chillt.de> <20050315020930.GA14246@dragon.NUXI.org> <42373A83.6040201@alumni.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42373A83.6040201@alumni.rice.edu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: Bartosz Fabianowski cc: Eugenio cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:40:05 -0000 On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:41:55PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:48:52PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >>>Are you saying, all we need to do is commit this diff to make everyone's > >>>environment happy? > > > >Can you try with just -mno-sse2? I'd like to litter the compile command > >line as little as possible. > > I had this issue a while back with my Athlon-XP box > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-November/042127.html). > Note that I would get instant reboots with CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp, CPUTYPE?=p3, > and CPUTYPE?=p2. However, it worked fine with CPUTYPE?=k6-2. I think you > are right to be cautious and disable anything that uses FP registers. I remember that problem but I don't know why I don't experience it, since I also use CPUTYPE=athlon-mp on my home desktop. I suspect the problem is SSE2 usage, which the Althon {X,M}P doesn't support. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)