Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:31:34 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:9999 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:31:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:32:04 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Athlon/MSI mobo combo broken? Message-ID: <20010723183204.B27310@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20010723180201.A10557@convergence.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010723180201.A10557@convergence.de>; from leitner@convergence.de on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:02:01PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:02:01PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: > I have now had two MSI mainboards and two Athlons with 1330 MHz, and > none of them works as advertised. When I compile an Athlon kernel (I VIA chipset.. > When I compile the same kernel for Pentium Pro, it works. How can this > be? Theory right now: Because the Athlon kernel does streaming memory copies at full bus performance. Not all VIA chipset boards seem to cope. I'd be interested to know if 2.4.6-ac5 Athlon optimised works on your board. The reason for this is that it contains the official VIA fixes for their IDE corruption problem rather than our own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/