Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4] | From | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <> | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:09:15 +0100 |
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Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Forgive me, but what does 'registered' strictly refer to? It is ECC RAM, > in a single 512Mb module, but more than that, I don't know.
Registered RAM sticks look somewhat different from normal (ECC or not) RAM sticks. They have a few more ICs on the stick, and are usually bigger than their normal counterparts.
(The "register" bit refers to, I believe, those buffers on the sticks.)
> But the key question is still this: is this purely a hardware issue? My > understanding is that with recent 2.4 kernels, Athlon optimisations and > AMD 760 issues are sorted - am I right?
If you compile a kernel without any Athlon optimizations, it should work on the Tyan Tiger. Try that first, and then try out the optimizations when you've got that working.
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