Subject: Re: lm kernel opt segfaults
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/04/2002 17:06:26
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:46:48PM -0500, George Sollish wrote:
> > On two i386/1.5.2 boxes I built kernels with the config identical to
> > GENERIC except for the inclusion of the lm hardware monitor.  Both kernels
> > built without errors and appear to function (boot, etc., including
> > envstat, which reads the Winbond hardware chips correctly based on what I
> > remember from my last look at the bios display).  The 'only' problem is
> > that the kernel segfaults and dumps a small core (c.150k) each time it
> > boots.  The same behavior is observed on three boxes, an Athlon 750
> > (Winbond, but not the same chip as the Pentium II), Pentium II 400, and
> > Pentium I 100 (no hardware monitor on this last).
> >
> > Have I missed something in my kernel config?
>
> Did you remove the .o files before rebuilding ?
>
> I use the lm driver on several 1.5.2 machines without problems.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --

Both kernel builds were on newly installed boxes -- no prior kernels built
on either -- so the tree should have been clean.  Or are you referring to
something else?  I built the kernels according to the instructions on
netbsd.org.

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