Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Why no Cyrix patch in 2.1.20? | Date | Tue, 07 Jan 1997 15:22:49 -0700 | From | Byron Faber <> |
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Linus,
Could you please apply the appropriate parts of the latest cyrix patch to the next kernel?
The VSPM options are known to give problems, but everything else is very useful, and could save a few cyrix users some concerns about heat.
Byron
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This is version 3 of the Cyrix patch. It is against 2.1.7 (or so) but should patch cleanly against later 2.1s from reading the patches (other than Documentation/Configure.help).
This adds some optional tweaking of performance features on the 6x86 and, completely new in this patch, the 5x86. If you enable the VSPM option for the 6x86 it works around the known wierdness.
I have a couple of reports that a revision 4 6x86 sometimes freezes. I suspect this a problem with suspend on halt but have not been able to confirm it yet. If you have this problem try deleting the half dozen lines in arch/i386/kernel/head.S that set SUSP_HLT and let me know if it works.
All other bugs are currently unknown so tell me about them :-).
Mike
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