Re: 2.1.132 kernel build error

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From: Bill Metzenthen
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:00

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:12:11 +0800, Regit Young <regit@wantree.com.au> wrote:
[..]
>I have not encounter such problem personally, but rdtsc (read-time stamp
>counter) seems to be only registered in Intel chips. If you have a AMD
>or Cyrix, play around with CPU settings and see how it goes.

If you look at include/asm-i386/bugs.h, it seems that K6 processors
have this instruction.  Anyway, I don't think that playing around with
the CPU settings within the x86 family will have an effect upon
Stephen's problem.

>Stephen Hearn wrote:
>> Then I tried the "make zImage" & got -
[..]
>> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>> {standard input}:263: Error: no such 386 instruction: `rdtsc'
>> {standard input}:275: Error: no such 386 instruction: `rdtsc'

The compilation error messages should probably be interpreted as:
    ERROR: 'as' version is too old.  Upgrade your binutils!


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From: billm@melbpc.org.au (Bill Metzenthen)
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Date: 1999/01/12
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