Re: Newest loader from CVS not working

From: Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang) <"Li-Lun>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 00:23:44 +0800
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:17:53AM -0500, Jonathan Noack wrote:
> On 05/18/05 00:11, Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang) wrote:
> >I just upgraded my pentium-m laptop from 5.4-STABLE to the newest
> >6.0-CURRENT. However, the newest loader does not seem to work for
> >me. BTX reboots right after it detects the internal keyboard/console
> >and dumps the registers. I have tried to set CPUTYPE?=p-m, CPUTYPE=p3,
> >and even not setting CPUTYPE at all, but none of them solves my
> >problem. The old loader from 5.4 works perfectly. Any ideas?
> 
> If you are building/installing just the loader, do a full build/install 
> world without setting CPUTYPE.  From my experience it seems like it is 
> gcc that is being affected (when it is compiled with CPUTYPE set) and 
> producing incorrect code for the loader, so a build/install world is 
> necessary.  This may not help, but it narrows the problem.

I rebuilt the world without setting CPUTYPE, and the loader works.
I wonder if setting CPUTYPE=p3 when building the world will also work.
It is strange how gcc could be affected...

- -- Li-Lun Wang
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