[sldev] Call stack for crash on startup in SSE code on early Athlon processors?

Dzonatas dzonatas at dzonux.net
Tue Jul 10 12:41:42 PDT 2007


The immediate test on the 586tsc shows it working -- starts up. The 
586tsc does not have SSE but does have MMX. The only thing apparently 
different with the K7 would be the 3DNow! features.

Dzonatas wrote:
> I got a hold of a 586tsc, which appears very similar to the older 
> Thunderbird 800mhz.  Eh... it has linux preinstalled... i'll see what 
> i can do
>
> Harold Brown wrote:
>> Not sure what I all I can do with the system I tested with last 
>> night. (Athalon XP 1500+, No SSE/SSE2)
>>  
>> It's not exactly the beefiest machine but I'll see what I can do.  
>> I'm off RL work for vacation starting this weekend.. so I'll 
>> definately have some time to mess with it then.
>>  
>> On 7/10/07, *Dzonatas* <dzonatas at dzonux.net 
>> <mailto:dzonatas at dzonux.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     James, let me know and I'll drive out there to help you set it up and
>>     work on it... =)
>>
>>     James Cook (James) wrote:
>>     > I tried and failed yesterday to fix "Crash on startup due to SSE
>>     > instructions":
>>     > https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1610
>>     >
>>     > We mistakenly tested this build on an Athlon Mobile XP 2000+ which
>>     > supports SSE1.
>>     >
>>     > None of our internal developers have a processor this old.  Does
>>     > anyone have an early Athlon (K7 / Thunderbird) that doesn't
>>     support
>>     > SSE who can get me a call stack off the current codebase?
>>     >
>>     > I'm reverting the SSE code from 1.18.0 until we can sort this out.
>>     > We're putting together an old Athlon internally, but it won't
>>     be in
>>     > time for the 1.18 series.
>>     >
>>
>
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