Re: AMD K6

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
4 May 1997 03:52:20 GMT

Followup to: <8767xcppho.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
By author: stephen farrell <sfarrell@healthquiz.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> what is the status of linux on the AMD K6 -- does it work? how does
> it benchmark? what are people's opinions about the K6?
>

I can confirm that currently the K6 does **NOT** work with Linux, at
least not version 2.0.27 that is on the Red Hat boot disk. On my
brand new K6-PR166 it displays the same symptoms as have previously
been reported to this list. Man, am I bummed. However, I'll see if
I can find a fix.

-hpa

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