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From: Stuart Young <sgy@amc.com.au> Subject: Re: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:36:56 +1100 > At 04:52 PM 22/01/02 -0600, Steve Brueggeman wrote: > >I would like to see some indication that someone is collecting data > >related to "running stable with mem=nopentium on Athelon > >architecture", and maybe we can see a pattern here. Heck maybe we see > >2 or 3 different patterns here.> > Well I'm quite willing to give all the system specs we have at work and the > ones I have at home (all up, this is about 12 Athlon's that are running > Linux, all running fine so far with no issues) towards this process. > > I've not seen your system specs, so I'm wondering what sort of m/board you > have? The mention of the SiS AGP support makes me wonder if you are running > an SiS chipset board. In the past, Linux kernel developers and the XFree86 > team have had a huge amount of trouble (or in some cases, flat refusal) in > getting certain (usually up to date) specs out of SiS, and I'm wondering if > maybe this could be related somehow, as none of the systems I've got have > an SiS chipset in them (they are all AMD or VIA chipsets). Yes the docs and driver for the graphic part of the sis630 suck (I helped debuggin/hacking it ...) - but the sis735 runs rock solid here! Using a mga450 and an Athlon XP1700+. Here I only see one Athlon system crashing all the time. This is a 700Mhz Duron runnign in a Asus A7V. With a 2.4.16 kernel compiled with Athlon optimization all applications are crashing all time (sed, cc, gcc, sawfish - all. Simply sig-11), with a 2.4.4 kernel (using the same .config) it seem to run just fine. 4 passes of memtest86 showed no error, either ... I see the broken via chips involved most of the time. We will try a i386-only optimized kernel tomorrow. > Now I'm not saying this is an SiS issue, but maybe it's more prevalent with > SiS chipsets? Until we get some hard data, who knows! > > > Stuart Young - sgy@amc.com.au> (aka Cefiar) - cefiar1@optushome.com.au> > [All opinions expressed in the above message are my] > [own and not necessarily the views of my employer..] k33p h4ck1n6 and goo night René -- René Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 <http://counter.li.org>) eMail: rene.rebe@gmx.net rene@rocklinux.org Homepage: http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/ Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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