Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:32:56 -0500 (EST) | From | "Calin A. Culianu" <> | Subject | Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14? |
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Wilson wrote:
> ----- 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.
So you think I should turn Athlon optimizations off? Exactly what kinds of problems were people who use Athlon optimizations experiencing?
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