Hi, The X server won't start on our Montecito boxes, it crashes with a SIGILL. This problem seems to be related to the separated data and instruction caches on this CPU, and missing flush instructions in the X module loader. I have "written" a fix for this, that SEEMS to work. But I am not familiar enough with the X server and its loader to be sure of this. (But at least it works on our system). This patch can be found at : http://www.bullopensource.org/patches/xorg-x11.montecito_sigill.Bull.patch
elfloader will no longer be the default loader in 6.9/7.0 and later. have you encountered this same problem using dlloader in any of the 6.9 snapshots or release candidates?
CVS head also contains the following fix for elfloader on ia64: http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/elfloader.c?r1=1.4&r2=1.5 this change is present since the 6.8.99.2 snapshot. does that patch help on montecito?
simon, any word on this? i'd like to see 7.0 working out of the box on montecito.
simon: is this still an issue on Montecito with 6.9 or 7.0? please reopen if so.
Closing. Please reopen if this still is an issue
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