Re: Pentium memcpy patch
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:17:02 +0100 (BST)
> The patch still doesn't work for me. It worked fine until the pre-2
> patches, but now the system just hangs here during boot:
>
> Linux version 1.99.12 (root@cmpsci1.cs.umass.edu) (gcc version 2.7.2) #11-pre-2.0 Tue Jun 4 17:45:04 EDT 1996
> Booting processor 1 stack 00002000: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 39.94 BogoMIPS
> Total of 2 processors activated (79.77 BogoMIPS).
>
> So it doesn't work for everyone. I have have 2 P-100's, Neptune chipset,
> EISA/PCI bus.
The FPU handlers for SMP are somewhat different to those for a uniprocessor
box. That may be why his patch trips up.
Alan