C3 compiled 2.4.20 kernel blows up on EPIA M

C3 compiled 2.4.20 kernel blows up on EPIA M

[brian]

I have a VIA EPIA M motherboard.

http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81

A 2.4.20 gentoo-sources kernel compiled with
CONFIG_MCYRIXIII blows up during boot.  Basically just after
hitting return on grub the screen turns to all blue 'V's and
then the acts like someone pushed the reset button.

386 and 586 kernels work fine.

I'm running gcc 3.2.3




-- 
Brian Litzinger

Re: C3 compiled 2.4.20 kernel blows up on EPIA M

[Matt H.]

Have you tried 2.4.22 yet ? 



On Sunday 02 November 2003 12:23 am, brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:
> I have a VIA EPIA M motherboard.
> 
> http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81
> 
> A 2.4.20 gentoo-sources kernel compiled with
> CONFIG_MCYRIXIII blows up during boot.  Basically just after
> hitting return on grub the screen turns to all blue 'V's and
> then the acts like someone pushed the reset button.
> 
> 386 and 586 kernels work fine.
> 
> I'm running gcc 3.2.3
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: C3 compiled 2.4.20 kernel blows up on EPIA M (summary)

[brian]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:23:23PM -0800, brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:
> I have a VIA EPIA M10000 motherboard.
> http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81
> 
> A 2.4.20 gentoo-sources kernel compiled with
> CONFIG_MCYRIXIII blows up during boot.  Basically just after
> hitting return on grub the screen turns to all blue 'V's and
> then the acts like someone pushed the reset button.
> 386 and 586 kernels work fine.
> I'm running gcc 3.2.3

I always like to follow up my own postings with a summary of the
results for future searches.

The VIA EPIA M10000 does not have a C3 processor on it so far
as release 2.4.20 of the kernel is concerned.  It has a C3-2
processor which apparently has a somewhat different instructions
set.  So use '-march=i686 -mmmx -msse' for gcc, and 
'Pentium II/Celeron' for the kernel.

-- 
Brian Litzinger