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From: Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4]
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> I've got a Tyan Tiger w/ 2x Athlon XP 1800+ running 2.2.19, and it
> works just fine.  (And compiles its kernel blindingly fast.  :-)  The
> only Tyan-related problem I've heard people having is that it's quite
> picky about what type of RAM it tolerates.  It must be registered ECC
> RAM.

Forgive me, but what does 'registered' strictly refer to? It is ECC RAM,
in a single 512Mb module, but more than that, I don't know.

But the key question is still this: is this purely a hardware issue? My
understanding is that with recent 2.4 kernels, Athlon optimisations and
AMD 760 issues are sorted - am I right?

Perhaps 2.4.15-pre4 would actually work, if I could fix the initrd
problem...? Since most -ac stuff is in there, I opted for that rather
than 2.4.13-acX for now, but maybe I should drop back to that?

Cheers
Alastair

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Alastair Stevens
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Cambridge UK
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