Re: Old Indy, 64-bit setup

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:10:37PM +0100, gigo@poczta.ibb.waw.pl wrote:
> Just a silly question. Is there any working 64-bit kernel configuration 
> for my r4k 100MHz Indy? From time to time i compile another new kernel for 
> 64-bit... and see the thing dying. Recently it looked pretty well like 

your CPU needs a special gcc to avoid triggering 64bit CPU bugs. There
are also some kernel workarounds missing, which are scheduled for 2.6.25.
No idea about the gcc part.

Thomas.

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