Subject: Re: Error: no such 386 instruction: `fxsave'
To: Mike Saunders <method@method.cx>
From: Glendon Gross <gross@xinetd.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/01/2001 10:04:35
You can disable i686 support or build "gas.new" and rebuild.
These errors come from new multimedia extensions intended to support 
intel chips.

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Mike Saunders wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> 	I'm currently running an i386 system (celeron) and I've got a
> SoundBlaster Live card I'm trying to get working.  I just used cvs to pull
> the -current source tree down about an hour ago.  I did a basic config for
> a kernel (I copied generic and commented out some of the things I didn't
> need, left what I wasn't sure about) and tried to build a new
> kernel.  Config'ing and make depend went find, but when I issue a make I
> get this: 
> 
> schizo# make
> cc  -O2 -Werror -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-main -I. -I../../../../arch
> -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DCRYPTO_MD_DES_ENC -DCRYPTO_MD_BF_ENC -DLKM
> -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL -D_KERNEL_OPT -Di386  -c
> ../../../../arch/i386/isa/npx.c
> /tmp/ccmq7D7T.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccmq7D7T.s:314: Error: no such 386 instruction: `fxsave'
> /tmp/ccmq7D7T.s:410: Error: no such 386 instruction: `fxsave'
> /tmp/ccmq7D7T.s:450: Error: no such 386 instruction: `fxrstor'
> /tmp/ccmq7D7T.s:486: Error: no such 386 instruction: `fxsave'
> /tmp/ccmq7D7T.s:571: Error: no such 386 instruction: `fxsave'
> *** Error code 1
>  
> Stop.
> 	
> 	Can anybody give me an idea as to what may be going on
> here?  Sorry if this has been answered already.  I'm new to the list and
> I'm still searching the archives.
> 
> -Mike Saunders
> method@method.cx
> 
>