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November 10, 2011 at 00:47 #1586

JSmith01

I have integrated system based on VIA C3 processor. Geexbox 2.0 won’t run on it, while previous version (1.2 afair) works perfect. Problem appears in the very first steps of the boot process. It hangs with the error, something about CMOV instruction isn’t supported by CPU.

How can I get distributive compiled for older CPU’s?

PS Configuration of my PC is:
GA-PCV2 motherboard, VIA CLE266 chipset and C3 800MHz CPU
256Mb DDR1 RAM
November 10, 2011 at 04:54 #1589

tomlohave

i’m afraid you need to compile it yourself …
November 10, 2011 at 11:09 #1592

JSmith01

Is there any docs describing compilation?
November 10, 2011 at 11:27 #1593

JSmith01

Any suggestions about necessary changes in linux.conf?
It’s obvious that X86_CMOV=y – is incorrect in my case. Does menuconfig from tune kernel configuration? Or I need to configure kernel separately then copy linux.conf to new folder (like generic, but with my configs)?
November 10, 2011 at 11:58 #1594

tomlohave

load geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic
and change i686 by i586 in make menuconfig
or create a new directory in config/platform//i386 and adapt linux.conf for your board.

  • This reply was modified 4 days ago by tomlohave.
November 10, 2011 at 12:08 #1596

JSmith01

Thanks, I’ll try it tomorrow.
November 13, 2011 at 06:22 #1609

JSmith01

compilation fails:

-2011-11-13 13:10:28- ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/binutils-2.21.52.0.2.tar.bz2
=> `sources/binutils/binutils-2.21.52.0.2.tar.bz2′
Resolving http://ftp.kernel.org…; 149.20.4.69
Connecting to http://ftp.kernel.org|149.20.4.69|:21… connected.
Logging in as anonymous … Logged in!
==> SYST … done. ==> PWD … done.
==> TYPE I … done. ==> CWD (1) /pub/linux/devel/binutils …
No such directory `pub/linux/devel/binutils’.

nCan’t get binutils sources : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/binutils-2.21.52.0.2.tar.bz2n Try later !!

I try to build geexbox from 2.0 source, that I get from here – http://www.geexbox.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=geexbox-2.0.tar.bz2

Buildbox is Linux 2.6.18 (CentOS 5.x afaik)
November 13, 2011 at 06:57 #1610

tomlohave

please use openbricks repo
geexbox repo is updated from openbricks
November 14, 2011 at 06:43 #1621

JSmith01

Is this okay:

$ hg clone http://hg.openbricks.org/geexbox

??
November 14, 2011 at 08:18 #1622

JSmith01

fails with the same error
November 14, 2011 at 09:34 #1623

tomlohave

hg clone http://hg.openbricks.org/openbricks
November 14, 2011 at 09:36 #1624

tomlohave

i will try to push some changes tomorrow to geexbox repo.
for now use openbricks.
More info here : http://www.openbricks.org/development-source-tree/
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