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Re: NetBSD/i386 7.0 hangs booting 486



On Nov 20,  9:37pm, m4j0rd0m0%gmail.com@localhost (Felix Deichmann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: NetBSD/i386 7.0 hangs booting 486

| 2015-11-20 21:32 GMT+01:00 Felix Deichmann <m4j0rd0m0%gmail.com@localhost>:
| > And while searching around, can this be an occurence of a 'cpuid'
| > instruction problem you discussed on port-i386 in February [1]?
| >
| > [1] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2015/02/06/msg003348.html
| 
| Yikes, I was ten seconds too fast before. Should have investigated my
| guess with the ominous address better :)
| 
| db{0}> x/I bbbbf502
| bbbbf502:        cpuid
| 
| What to do about it now? I mean all 486 might be broken one way or the other.

Edit:

/usr/src/external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/config/i386/cpuid.h

change:
__get_cpuid_max() to always return 0 immediately and then we can debug it :-)

christos


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