From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:37:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:37:01 -0500 Received: from web3401.mail.yahoo.com ([204.71.203.55]:52752 "HELO web3407.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:36:44 -0500 Message-ID: <20001118190638.18296.qmail@web3407.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:06:38 +0100 (CET) From: Markus Schoder Subject: Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon To: Linus Torvalds , adrian Cc: Alan Cox , "Udo A. Steinberg" , Linux Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Linus Torvalds schrieb: > > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, adrian wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > There's almost certainly more than that. I'd > love to have a report on my > > > asm-only version, but even so I suspect it also > requires the 3dnow stuff, > > > > I tried all three versions, and no freezes. I > forgot to mention the tests > > were run on a model 2 Athlon (original slot K7, > .18 micron). The kernel > > is compiled with 3dnow support. > > Apparently it isn't the stepping, as we have Athlon > model 4's both showing > it and not showing it. The motherboard seems to be > the only real > difference here, which is why I like the irq13 > explanation more and more. > > I've been wanting to get rid of irq13 anyway (some > boards wire up USB > and/or ACPI to irq13 and the fact that the FPU has > claimed it makes those > machines unhappy), so if the solution is to only > check for irq13 on old > i386 and i486sx machines and just leave it alone for > newer CPU's, I won't > complain. > > Markus, can you make the irq13 test the first thing > - don't worry about > 3dnow as that seems to not be a deciding factor.. > > Linus > Ok, that was it! It's IRQ 13. Guess I should have tried that first. Now everything works perfectly. Thanks everybody. -- Markus __________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Gratis zum Millionär! - http://10millionenspiel.yahoo.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/