Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 1996 18:25:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Ralph Lewis <> | Subject | Re: AMD K5 with Linux |
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On 18 Jul 1996, Danny ter Haar wrote:
> 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? > > 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 ;-) > > It seems there is a bug in the AMD or in the kernel somewhere ;-)
Just thought I would put in my 2 bits. I have a IBM 486 SLC2/66 with a math coprocessor. Linux would give me floating point errors and exceptions when compiling, using man (nroff), and xv among other things. I had to turn off my math coproc with the no387 option as well, now all runs fine.
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