Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:38:17 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Another oops (1.3.93) |
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On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Matthew White wrote: > > I do have a Cyrix chip. 486-DX2/66. And you know, I got another oops on > Apr. 23. As well, the 00000004 came up. I can send that to you too, if > you'd like. If it makes a difference, I also a victim of the sig11 bug > (I even got one while making clean!) but I 99.44% sure it's my cache memory.
Ok, this thing is more or less confirmed - there are some serious problems with Cyrix chips. Not nice.
That doesn't mean you should all throw out Cyrix - there have been other manufacturers with buggy chips (including intel), and I'd be happy to try to come up with a fix for this problem. The real problem right now is that we don't know _what_ causes the Cyrix problem, so trying to fix it is pretty much hunt-and-peck unless somebody has some cyrix contacts?
If anybody knows anybody that works for Cyrix, could you please speak up? Doesn't have to be technical personell - we can try to get the addresses of some really technical people from the marketing people if anybody knows those scumbags ;-)
I wouldn't like to ask for this information on the announce newsgroup (if we can do this silently without upsetting a lot of people I'd be happier), but that would be one way to reach a lot of people...
Linus
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