This is odd. the 2.6.8 kernel should have the code that causes a SIGILL
if !CONFIG_ALTIVEC. Can you enable CONFIG_KALLSYMS.
- kumar
On May 13, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Pawel Sikora wrote:
Hi,
simple runtime altivec detection from userspace causes an oops
on the `vand` instruction. kernel was built *without* CONFIG_ALTIVEC.
i think kernel should return a SIGILL instead of an oops ;-)
Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#65]
NIP: C0008B84 LR: C0007F2C SP: CF373F20 REGS: cf373e70 TRAP: 0300 Not
tainted
MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
DAR: 00000088, DSISR: 40000000
TASK = c81e04f0[12983] 'altivec' THREAD: cf372000Last syscall: 174
GPR00: C0007F2C CF373F20 C81E04F0 00000004 00000004 00030001 00000000
0FEE08D0
GPR08: 0000F932 C0007F2C 00009032 C0350000 081E0788 00000000 00000000
100A37D8
GPR16: 100A0000 00000000 100A0000 00000000 10070000 100A37C8 100AEF08
00000000
GPR24: 100A1108 00000000 100A59A8 3002AEF8 3002BB80 3002AE60 0FFEA6FC
00000004
Call trace: [c0007f2c]
processor : 0
cpu : 7450
clock : 700MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201)
bogomips : 696.32
machine : PowerMac4,4
motherboard : PowerMac4,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 80 (eMac)
pmac flags : 00000001
L2 cache : 256K unified
memory : 384MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
--
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
<altivec.c>
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