Subject: Re: Performa 630 FPU issues
To: Jason Godfrey <godfreja@adam.cs.uwec.edu>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/05/1996 22:40:15
> I have had frequent trouble with getting segmentation faults when running 
> NetBSD on a Performa 630. This was supposedly due to a bug in the FPU 
> emulator. Well, I installed the libm-nomc68881 libraries to hopefully get 
> rid of this problem (it worked for Steve Allen on a C610.)
> 
> However, I still get frequent segmentation faults. Did I install it wrong 
> (putting the stuff in /usr/lib, replacing what was already there) or is 
> there something else going on here? 
> 
> Details
> -------
> Peforma 63xCD 68LC040
> 36 Meg Ram
> 800 M root, 80 meg swap
> (Not my computer, just testing it before I run out and get a SCSI
> drive for my own use.)

Actually, the errors you normally get with FPE trouble are illegal 
instruction errors, not segmentation faults.  Maybe there is still some 
MMU trouble on the '040s????

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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