Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:30:18 -0500 (EST) | From | "Calin A. Culianu" <> | Subject | Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14? |
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They get random NULL pointer dereference attempts from the kernel, as well as some messages relating to errors in virtual page blah blah blah. Really I should write down the error messages.. but basically the system prints what looks like a black screen of death to the console and then becomes completely non-responsive.
On 8 Nov 2001, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 13:17, Calin A. Culianu wrote: > > I wouldn't mind trying his tree at all. Does his tree somehow use the > > older VM, or does it try to address Athlon bugs more aggressively? Ie: Why > > is this a great idea? (Apart from Alan's tree just being really cool). > > It does use the older VM, and more importantly it has some odd end fixes > that have yet to be incorporated into Linus's tree. And, yes, it is > just really cool :) > > After that, I would look into compiling without optimization. > > Also, what exactly happens on the systems? Do they hard lock? Do you > have an oops? > > Robert Love >
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