From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:00:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:00:39 -0400 Received: from adsl-65-68-16-200.dsl.ltrkar.swbell.net ([65.68.16.200]:22619 "EHLO etmain.edafio.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:00:24 -0400 Subject: RE: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5)) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:55:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3BDF3E4668AD0D49A7B0E3003B294282BC95@etmain.edafio.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Thread-Topic: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5)) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Index: AcD9RL2A00f4ZAneTQWC1C+aqER/kwAa5gew From: "Andy Ward" To: "Alan Cox" , "Steven Walter" Cc: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org oh really? I have my memory timings set to 133/cas2/6-4-4-4. One wonders... *ponder* I have noticed some general flakyness (hard to pin down) on the system, though... random program crashes, minor visual corruption in X (which fixes itself when you move things around), etc... Anyone want to take a swing at that? -- andyw -----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:07 AM To: Steven Walter Cc: Andy Ward; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5)) > Great, glad to here it. Who (if anyone) is still attempting to unravel > the puzzle of the Via southbridge bug? You, Andy, should try and get in > touch with them and help debug this thing, if you're up to it. The IWILL problem seems unrelated. Its the board that more than others people report fails totally when streaming memory copies using movntq instructions. The Athlon optimised kernel places pretty much the absolute maximum load possible on the memory bus. Several people have reported that machines that are otherwise stable on the bios fast options require the proper conservative settings to be stable with the Athlon optimisations Alan