Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:58:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:58:20 -0500 Received: from [217.89.50.104] ([217.89.50.104]:57870 "EHLO NOTES.INTERCOPE.COM") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:58:10 -0500 Subject: Dual Athon Rocks!!! (was :Re: A7M266-D works?) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.6a January 17, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Michael Kwasigroch" Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:55:15 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on ICHH1G02/INTERCOPE/DE(Release 5.0.3 (Intl)|21 March 2000) at 18.02.2002 17:57:22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, you all might know that already, but http://www.2cpu.com has all the information one need to know to run a dual athlon system succesfully. I've bought the Tyan Tiger S2466N which is very similar to the Asus A7M266-D but has one 32-Bit PCI slot more, and it has got an onboard 3com 10/100 Mbit NIC. To make it run with a 2.2.19 Linux Kernel get 2.2.19 and patch it with the io_apic.c-patch from the latest 2.2.20-pre (or use 2.2.20 ;-). Otherwise it will lock up due to interrupts being not correctly routed by the APIC chip. Please note that there is currently no way to switch the onboard IDE to anything UDMA-ish. Kernel 2.2.x will only be able to use the slow PIO-mode due to the lack of a usable ide-patch for the onboard Viper-7441 IDE controller. Because of this all of you would definitely use 2.4.17 and get the latest ide-patch from www.linux-ide.org. With that patch I was able to switch onboard IDE to ATA33, although my hard drives are UDMA5 (ATA100). I'm pretty sure I can push it to ATA100, although I don't care, since this thing is so damn fast already (I'm running two Athlon MP 1800+ with 512 MB of RAM). 2.4.18 should have the patch included... It builds a Linux kernel (bzImage + modules) in 85 seconds!!! And yes: I'm having around 6100 BogoMips! Not bad for a system worth around 2200 Euro... P.S.: Please cc me directly on any replies since I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel. TIA. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up." Michael Kwasigroch FaxPlus/Open Development ________________________________________ e-mail: mkwasigr@intercope.com INTERCOPE International Communication Products Engineering GmbH www.intercope.com - 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/