From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 15:07:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 15:07:51 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:53004 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 15:05:46 -0400 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4ac7 oops, locks in init on boot To: gbsadler1@lcisp.com (Gordon Sadler) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:02:22 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010511140019.A1248@debian-home.lcisp.com> from "Gordon Sadler" at May 11, 2001 02:00:19 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If anyone has any further suggestions/patches to run 2.4.x with K7 > chosen optimizations, I'm open to testing. 'Buy an AMD chipset box..' Seriously at this point I am out of ideas. The prefetch to far effect explained the old athlon locks (step 1) people reported on all chipsets. It didnt really seem to explain the problem with a few via chipset boards but I was hopeful. Alan