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Re: patched oskit10 for gcc-2.95.2
> > - memtest asks for some parameter and then crashes.
> > I haven't examined this yet.
>
> Oh. It tries to execute "rdtsc" which this 486 processor doesn't
> support. Is there alternative code for time keeping?
The oskit code that uses rdtsc is the only thing there intended for
performance-level timing. I think the off-chip clocks (PIT and RTC) are
the only other option. Beware that this is probably not the only place in
the oskit that assumes a Pentium or later chip; 486 support is certainly
not a great burden and should be there, but I don't think the Flux group
has any 486 machines that have ever been used for testing (and it's
understandably not going to be a priority to support hardware worth far
less than a day's hacker time). The earliest chip on which I have used
oskit (and thus oskit-mach) is an early Pentium (100MHz with F00F bug),
and I just gave away my 486 on Sunday. :-)
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