Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:06:38 +0100 (CET) | From | Markus Schoder <> | Subject | Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon |
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--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> schrieb: >
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, adrian wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > There's almost certainly more than that. I'd > love to have a report on my > > > asm-only version, but even so I suspect it also > requires the 3dnow stuff, > > > > I tried all three versions, and no freezes. I > forgot to mention the tests > > were run on a model 2 Athlon (original slot K7, > .18 micron). The kernel > > is compiled with 3dnow support. > > Apparently it isn't the stepping, as we have Athlon > model 4's both showing > it and not showing it. The motherboard seems to be > the only real > difference here, which is why I like the irq13 > explanation more and more. > > I've been wanting to get rid of irq13 anyway (some > boards wire up USB > and/or ACPI to irq13 and the fact that the FPU has > claimed it makes those > machines unhappy), so if the solution is to only > check for irq13 on old > i386 and i486sx machines and just leave it alone for > newer CPU's, I won't > complain. > > Markus, can you make the irq13 test the first thing > - don't worry about > 3dnow as that seems to not be a deciding factor.. > > Linus >
Ok, that was it! It's IRQ 13. Guess I should have tried that first. Now everything works perfectly. Thanks everybody.
-- Markus
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