Luke> Daniel & I tried to run Loki's new beta version of
Luke> Civilization Call to Power for alpha linux on a multia (ev4
Luke> alpha). We got an illegal instruction exception. We
Luke> discovered that it was compiled for ev6, and so contained
Luke> instructions not supported by our CPU.
Luke> So we have patched the linux kernel to emulate the
Luke> instructions we needed. These instructions are: - byte/word
Luke> load/store instructions (ldbu,stb,ldwu,stw) - some
Luke> multimedia instructions (minsw, maxsw, minuw, maxuw, minsb,
Luke> maxsb, minub, maxub)
Good work.
The same problem happens on my EV56. Would you expect your patch to
work there also? Or are there EV5 elements that I should expect
to be issues?
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