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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 13:58:05 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>, Andy Ward <andyw@edafio.com>,
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Subject: Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))
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Hi!

> > 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

Do we need patch to memtest to use 3dnow?
									Pavel
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