josh
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Anthony Pardini wrote:
>
> Hmm.. My single PII 266 compiles in 4 minutes. I have the Asus KN97-X
> motherboard. What patches to 2.0.30 are you using?
>
> Previously the machine was a dual p100 and now it now seems a lot less
> stable.
>
> tony
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
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> > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, System Email wrote:
> >
> > > Does linux support PentiumII's (does it work?)
> >
> > Certainly. We've got 2.0.30 running on two PentiumII 233's [1] here at
> > OGI. Kernel compiles in 3 minutes or so. :)
> >
> > However, the Intel PD440FX motherboard's BIOS is absolutely horrendous,
> > and I was stuck for a couple weeks just banging out IRQ conflicts since
> > you can't manually assign them on a per-slot basis, and the BIOS was
> > handing out duplicates, which the aic7xxx driver didn't particularly like.
> > (I've since gotten patches...)
> >
> > Plenty fast, though. (:
> >
> > Aaron J. Grier | Oregon Graduate Institute research programmer
> > DECBEE650DEE3A0C 1ED7F54D9E023CC4 | agrier@cse.ogi.edu, agrier@reed.edu
> > "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | 0x0663D1A9 at a server near you.
> >
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