Re: XFree 4.0 crashes with SRM

[Craig P Prescott <prescott phys ufl edu>]

Hi;

Jeff Sturm wrote:
> 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.

I had built gcc 2.95.2 from tarball (came out as alphaev56-...).  As
you suspected, I did not add -mcpu=pca56 to my compilations, though.

> 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...

Thanks - I getcha.  After I patched my kernel, I rebuilt the gcc from
scratch (this time it came out as alphapca56-...) before rebuilding
XFree, 'cuz I figured this very problem would be an issue.  I did
have this all sorted out in my head at the time, but not this morning
I guess :)  Thanks again...

Cheers,
Craig
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