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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test4: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
>> address 00000000 ...
>> > kernel: EIP is at find_inode_fast+0x1a/0x60
>> > ...
>> > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
>> > ...
>>
>> You've been bitten by the athlon-prefetch(0)-goes-oops problem.
>>
>> Nobody seems to be working this, so I'll be sending the below in to Linus.
>
> Let's not. If this goes in the Athlon users will get bad performance,
> reliable operation, and no one will blame anything but the Athlon... If it
> keeps oopsing hopefully people will complain and it will get fixed.
>
> Taking out features instead of fixing them is a bad president, this is not a
> driver for an obsolete ISA card, this is a performance boost for a very
> current CPU. I'm surprised AMD hasn't looked at it themselves.

Is this the same issue as
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106080170017645&w=2
in which AMD said, "Let us get back to you, ok?" on Aug. 13?

~Randy



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