Subject: Re: GENERIC crashes in boot on G4/466, 2.0_STABLE and -current
To: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@macfinity.net>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@tastylime.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/20/2005 10:09:54
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:49:15PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>=20
> this email is what i was waiting for...
>=20
> it's a known issue:
>=20
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2005/01/ and the following
> weeks and months.
>=20
> i ran into this on my G4 (400MHz SP back then, now 450 DP) with 2.99.9
> -- it works when you compile the kernel with -O3 and/or (!) any of the
> altivec-optimizing flags gcc knows.
>=20
> IIRC it's an issue on the level of PowerPC assembler.

OK, thanks for the reply.  Any chance you could point me at the post
where this is explained?  I've looked through the archives, and found
your initial post with the problem in it, but not the discussion of
the cause/workaround.

+j

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