CPUTYPE changes ? (RELENG_5)
Bartosz Fabianowski
freebsd at chillt.de
Wed Dec 22 18:20:38 PST 2004
Apparently, the CPU type changes have some unintended side effects. For
me, they render the system unbootable. I have been investigating what
broke my system between a 10th December cvsup and a 20th December one
and it boils down to bsd.cpu.mk. I am on a Centrino laptop, which uses a
Pentium M (Pentium III with some additional features) CPU. I have
CPUTYPE set to "pentium-m". I know this is officially not documented,
but bsd.cpu.ml recognizes it and sets the compiler flags accordingly.
Unfortunately, something is wrong with the flags. Some feature gets
enabled that this CPU does not support and a freshly compiled kernel
simply reboots the box on startup. It also affects the boot loader,
which shows a register dump for a split second and then reboots the
machine as well. I'd love to get to the root of this as currently, it
prevents me from keeping my machine up-to-date since anything newer than
15th December leads to an unbootable system :(.
- Bartosz
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