Re: XFree 4.0 crashes with SRM

[Jeff Sturm <jeff sturm appnet com>]

Craig P Prescott wrote:
> When I initially build XFree 4.0.0, I did not have the MVI patch in my
> kernel.  After I applied the MVI patch, I rebuilt XFree and friends
> from scratch.  Everything seemed to work just fine in both cases...

If you built XFree86 with the system compiler, it likely did not
generate MVI instructions, unless you also added -mcpu=pca56 somewhere
in the compilation.

In my case MVI was used by default, since I had earlier rebuilt GCC from
source for alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu.  I had done this before to get
BWX into XFree (and all other packages I build from source).  But I
didn't know until today that GCC generates MVI instructions too...

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Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@appnet.com