Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Wilson" <> | Subject | Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14? | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:38:38 -0500 |
| |
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hahn" <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca> To: "Wilson" <defiler@null.net> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14?
> > Bugs in the Athlon optimizations present in the Linux kernel. > > what bugs would those be? if you're thinking of the infamous > "my athlon dies when I boot a CONFIG_MK7 kernel on a kt133", > it is by all accounts a *chipset* bug, not a kernel bug. > it's still unclear whether the voodoo workaround > (in both linux and ac) is doing something sensible. > Perhaps I should have said "Unfortunate interactions" rather than "bug." The bottom line is that some people have trouble running Linux with "Athlon" selected as the processor type. I was just trying to reassure the original poster that there wasn't anything wrong with the Athlon CPU itself.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |