Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 19:50:45 +0200 | Subject | Re: IDT Winchip | From | (rene.rebe) |
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Nick wrote:
> I just received a new Cyrix MII (for me) and a 200 MHz IDT Winchip (for my > neighbour, who has a single-voltage motherboard). > > Checking them out on my system, I found that with the Winchip in place, my > BIOS only detected the first 96 MB of memory in my 128 MB system. Apart > from that, Linux worked like a champ, and I got performance equivalent to a > 233 MHz Pentium on my personal chess benchmark (which is no less silly than > bogomips, IMHO). > > So, for the CPU gurus: > - Is there any explicit code for the Winchip in Linux ? > - Which processor type group should I compile the kernel for ? > - Any idea why it only saw 96 MB of memory ? > And, does anyone have anything they need checking out for compatibility with > this chip ? I've got cycles to spare... >
-I have a IDT Winchip 240 running under Linux myself on a SIS chipset based board (and you??) and i have no problem with my 128 MB RAM.
-I can only run my Winchip with 486 optimization. With higher (pentium...) my system crashes after 1-5 hours!!! (no debug-reg output, not pingable ...) (i'm not sure wheather i tryed newer kernels than 2.2.5 :-( )
Rene
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