Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: bizarre problems with Athlon system after upgrdaing motherboard | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:53:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > When we upgraded the motherboard, we got consistant GPFs right after > > the line: > > Enabling extended fast FPU save > > It sounds like Redhat patched the kernel to support the Pentium III XMM > extensions and the kernel is misdetecting the Athlon as a PIII.
The Athlon claims to support FXSAVE, so I dont think that explains it. There is a problem with the older RH kernel (2.2.14 one) which sees the PSN flag is set and tries to disable PSN but the AMD chips use the flag for a different purpose
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