Re: Followup to previous post: Atlon/VIA Instabilities

Tom Leete (tleete@mountain.net)
Wed, 02 May 2001 07:10:06 -0400


Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> So it seems that CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW is simply used to
> enable access to the routines in mmx.c (the athlon-optimized
> routines on CONFIG_K7 kernels), so then it appears that somehow
> this is corrupting memory / not behaving as it should (very
> technical, right?) :)...
>
> --Seth

This is a shot in the dark. Do you have floating-point emulation on
(CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y)?

Tom

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