From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:47:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111191847.fAJIlMn30859@deathstar.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111081706491.31943-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
In-Reply-To: <001b01c1689f$fdd77850$c800000a@Artifact>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111081706491.31943-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca wrote:
>> 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.
Without the voodoo the Athlon is a very dubious chip to use indeed...
because user mode code can and will use Athlon optimizations which hang
the system. This is a case of "I do it because if I don't the system
doesn't work right."
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering
his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-08 16:46 Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-08 17:51 ` Robert Love
2001-11-08 18:17 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-08 19:18 ` Robert Love
2001-11-09 23:30 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-09 23:34 ` Robert Love
2001-11-09 23:45 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-10 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-11 5:05 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-11 16:47 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-11-08 21:50 ` Gniazdowski
2001-11-08 21:54 ` Wilson
2001-11-08 22:16 ` Mark Hahn
2001-11-08 22:38 ` Wilson
2001-11-09 23:32 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-08 23:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-09 23:35 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-11-10 9:01 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-11-10 9:16 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-11-10 13:32 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-11-19 18:47 ` bill davidsen [this message]
2001-11-08 23:13 ` Dan Hollis
2001-11-09 23:33 ` Calin A. Culianu
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