Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4ac7 oops, locks in init on boot

Tom Diehl (tdiehl@pil.net)
Fri, 11 May 2001 21:57:59 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 11 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.

So are you saying that given the current information available you have you
do not know how to fix the via -> Athlon stuff or am I reading too much
into this?

I am looking at buying an Athlon board soon and I am trying to figure out
if I should avoid via at all costs or not.

TIA,

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