CPUTYPE=ev67 breaks ld and as on DS20E

[Bernd Walter]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:41:18PM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote on Wed Jun 29, 2005 um 03:49:21PM:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:24:37PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote..
> > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote:
> > > > Bernd Walter wrote on Wed Jun 29, 2005 um 01:53:19PM:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:02:26PM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > i noticed on 5.4-RELEASE that building the world with CPUTYPE=ev67 set 
> > > > > > breaks /usr/bin/as and /usr/bin/ld.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm not shure that ev67 is widely tested or suported at all, ev6
> > > > > should work.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure if i used ev67 on 5.3 maybe it was ev6 and not ev67. But as 
> > > > far as i can see only as and ld break.
> > > > I "solved" the problem in using no CPUTYPE at all after replacing as and 
> > > > ld with the ones from the release base package and finally a rebuild of 
> > > > world and kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > In which way as and ld are broken?
> > > > 
> > > > For example while trying to build the world:
> > > > 
> > > > ===> gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi
> > > > cc -O2 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"  \
> > > > -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi/../../../../contrib/texinfo \
> > > > -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi/../../../../contrib/texinfo/lib \ 
> > > > -I/usr/obj/usr/src/alpha/legacy/usr/include -c \
> > > > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi/../../../../contrib/texinfo/lib/substring.c
> > > > 
> > > > cc: Internal error: Illegal instruction (program as)
> > > > Please submit a full bug report.
> > > > See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
> > > 
> > > Illegal instruction usually means that the programm uses instructions
> > > that the CPU doesn't know about.
> > > Are your shure that your have an EV67 CPU?
> > > Dmesg should tell you in CPU probe messages.
> > > 
> > > Don't know about DS20E, but a DS10L only has EV6:
> > > COMPAQ AlphaServer DS10L 466 MHz, 462MHz
> > 
> > Well, it also depends on the CPU speed, a 600MHz DS10 is a EV67 (or 68, I would
> > have to check)
> 
> For me it looks like a EV68:
> 
> CPU: EV6 (21264) major=8 minor=7 extensions=0x303<BWX,FIX,MVI,PRECISE>

No - it clearly states EV6.

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