----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Swartzendruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 1:07 PM
Subject: [expert] 2.2.13-22mdk is bogus?
>
> I did a nice clean install of 6.1 (2.2.13-7mdk) to my new K7. Worked
like
> a champ. After it was up and (mostly) configured, I clicked on Updates
and
> noted an update to kernel 2.2.13-22mdk. I said, "SURE!" It downloaded.
I
> did 'make depend'. Fine. I then did 'make bzImage'. It got all the way
> to the bind phase and then died with an unresolved symbol
> _buggy_fxsr_alignment. This was in (as I recall, and machine is not
> available right now), a bugs.h file? It seems to have something to do
with
> a misaligned field in a data structure when doing fast floating
> save/restore. So, I turn off that option in the config and repeat. This
> time it binds okay, but the system panics on boot. Any ideas?
>
>
Dan, read this message from 11/19/99 from the expert list - explains it
all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan J. Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Problems building kernel 2.2.13-22mdk
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Rob Steele wrote:
> >
> > > This is my first attempt to compile the the kernel so I'm probably
doing
> > > something stupid. I have two problems:
> > >
> > > I get a linker error that goes away if I disable "PII/PIII Extended
Fast
> > > FPU save and restore support"
> > >
> > > init/main.o: In function `check_fpu':
> > > init/main.o(.text.init+0x25): undefined reference to
> > > `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'
> > > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> I just wrote about this two days ago: deselect "Enable PII/PIII Extended
> Fast FPU save and restore support" under "Processor type and features"
>
> > This ones been reported and well documented, I believe alan's removed
this
> > from the ac patches (30mdk, is latest if my memory serves me)
>
> Well it took me a while to figure this out. It still listed as an open
> bug on Mandrake bug page (Bug #402 for package: kernel sources). I
> searched the archives of this mailing list and the newbie list and found
> nothing. Nobody knew about it when I e-mailed and asked. I found the
> answer searching alt.os.linux.mandrake
>
> where is this 30mdk kernel? If it is Cooker then are you saying that (in
> general I should have no problems with a Cooker kernel)?
>
> btw, if I replace the config file in the kernel.src.rpm package and
> compile it with rpm -bb kernel.spec should I have any problems?
> > > Any insight into these problems would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rob
