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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:42:42 -0600
From: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>
To: "Victor J. Orlikowski" <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>
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Subject: Re: Freeze and reboot with 2.4.0-test12-pre5
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:35:26AM -0500, Victor J. Orlikowski wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> 	One question:
> 	Do you have MTRR enabled?
> 	If so, a temporary workaround is to re-compile the kernel with
> it disabled.

To confirm, yes, I do have MTRR's enabled.  I'll see if that fixes it...
it hasn't happened in the past (checks uptime) 1 day and 9 hours, so

Out of curiosity, has someone found a reliable way of reproducing this?
 
> 	This is getting to be something of an epidemic.
> 	As I said, AMD's docs state that the write-combining was
> altered in the model and stepping stated. However, I would not
> consider myself *nearly* experienced enough in x86 assembler to start
> playing around with trying to work up a patch.
> 
-- 
-Steven
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