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Subject: Re: Any lingering Athlon bugs in Kernel 2.4.14?
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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111081706491.31943-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
	hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca wrote:
>> Bugs in the Athlon optimizations present in the Linux kernel.
>
>what bugs would those be?  if you're thinking of the infamous
>"my athlon dies when I boot a CONFIG_MK7 kernel on a kt133",
>it is by all accounts a *chipset* bug, not a kernel bug.
>it's still unclear whether the voodoo workaround 
>(in both linux and ac) is doing something sensible.

  Without the voodoo the Athlon is a very dubious chip to use indeed...
because user mode code can and will use Athlon optimizations which hang
the system. This is a case of "I do it because if I don't the system
doesn't work right."

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering
his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward.
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