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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:30:18 -0500 (EST)
From: "Calin A. Culianu" <calin@ajvar.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14?
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They get random NULL pointer dereference attempts from the kernel, as well
as some messages relating to errors in virtual page blah blah blah.
Really I should write down the error messages.. but basically the system
prints what looks like a black screen of death to the console and then
becomes completely non-responsive.


On 8 Nov 2001, Robert Love
wrote:

> On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 13:17, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> > I wouldn't mind trying his tree at all.  Does his tree somehow use the
> > older VM, or does it try to address Athlon bugs more aggressively? Ie: Why
> > is this a great idea?  (Apart from Alan's tree just being really cool).
>
> It does use the older VM, and more importantly it has some odd end fixes
> that have yet to be incorporated into Linus's tree.  And, yes, it is
> just really cool :)
>
> After that, I would look into compiling without optimization.
>
> Also, what exactly happens on the systems?  Do they hard lock?  Do you
> have an oops?
>
> 	Robert Love
>

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