Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Danny ter Haar) | Subject | Re: AMD K5 with Linux | Date | 18 Jul 1996 22:03:31 +0200 |
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In article <9607171724.AA06525@quix.robins.af.mil>, <msmith@quix.robins.af.mil> wrote: >Ok, we kicked the M1 around about a month ago, now how about >AMD's K5. Based on AMD's docs it can execute twice as >many instructions per clock as the P5 and is P5 plug-in >compatible. Anyone tried it with Linux and is it SMP plug-in >capable as well? > > Melvin >
We installed with a AMD K5 today. Several weird errors occured after about 15 minutes of operation: divide errors on several processes. (even ls) But after a fresh reboot it would be fine for about 10-15 minutes. Just like a register running over.
We "fixed" it though:
We compiled a kernel wit copro support and started a kernel with the no387 option, thus forcing the copro emulation and the errors didn't return (yet).
The motherboard we installed ahd the latest triton chipset and a dimm memory connector.
Here are the bootup messages, look at the bogomips ;-)
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fdb60 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfdb70 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91 Probing PCI hardware. Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7030). Please read include/linux/pci.h Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 149.91 BogoMIPS Memory: 6792k/8192k available (640k kernel code, 384k reserved, 376k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.12 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Linux version 2.0.7 (miquels@Q) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Thu Jul 18 16:35:22 MET DST 1996 Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A, 1039MB w/83kB Cache, LBA, CHS=528/64/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is an 8272A
It seems there is a bug in the AMD or in the kernel somewhere ;-)
Danny
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