Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 09:00:53 EST


> So what happens when someone is able to duplicate the problem on say AMD
> 760MP chipset with registered ECC PC2100 ram and 450W power supply?
>
> Not to say it has happened yet (I havent got my dual Tyan Tiger MP yet :-)
> but where would the finger start pointing then?

That would make it a lot more complex. There were a few cases much earlier
on with AMD chipset lockups but those have been cured (and were an Athlon
processor errata where a prefetch of an uncacheable line made a very very
nasty mess).

Alan
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