Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:53:58 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon |
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Markus Schoder wrote: > > --- 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.
What motherboard do you have? I can't reproduce this on my FIC SD11.
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