Bug#519391: libgcrypt11: SIGILL on _gcry_detect_hw_features

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun May 17 16:47:42 UTC 2009


On 2009-05-02 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2009-03-12 Piotr Roszatycki <dexter at debian.org> wrote:
>> I read the source for kernel 2.6.24 and found that it uses similar
>> technic for CPUID detection. I've copied to one simple test program
>> (attached) and I worried why it doesn't work on Vortex correcty:

>> $ ./cpuid
>> This CPU has CPUID opcode
>> Illegal instruction


>>> Any ideas?  Would anyone be so kind and compare it to the Linux code?


> There is a second, slightly diffeent instance of the same code in
> boot/cpucheck.c. Does this one also prodecue the Illegal instruction
> error?

> cu and- doesn't speak ASM -reas

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