Re: 2.6.23: does it supposed to work on an i486?

[H. Peter Anvin]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.Michael Tokarev wrote:
> I tried to upgrade one of our ooooold machines
> (used as print servers and similar tasks) today
> from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23[.9].  The same config (with
> minor tweaks for new options), i486 base arch,
> X86_GENERIC=y.
>
> The result is immediately machine reboot right
> after bootloader (etherboot) passes control to
> the kernel -- BEFORE "Uncompressing linux"
> message.
>
> 2.6.22 worked just fine.
>
> So I wonder if it's supposed to work in the first
> place.  The thing is that this machine(s) are very
> slow to boot, so trying to figure out which change
> is at question will require quite some time...

It looks like 2.6.23.9 is missing checkin 
7ed192906a2144ebc8ca2925a85d27b9c5355668 from Linus' tree (attached), 
which is necessary to work on 386 and 486.

	-hpa