Re: Illegal instruction - a workaround or fix ?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:05:03PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote:

> I'm bringing this up again because none of the related patches on this
> topic have been applied to the latest cvs kernel.  The patch Florian
> refers to above oopses for me as well.  This patch below, from Florian,
> but updated against the latest cvs kernel, works (at least the few
> simple tests I've run do work now).  

This patch is broken for small negative numbers in the memory.

Florian now has a better patch that should be correct.

  Ralf