From: Nicholas Knight <tegeran@home.com>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>,
Roberto Jung Drebes <drebes@inf.ufrgs.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GOLDMINE!!!] Athlon optimisation bug (was Re: Duron kernel crash)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:59:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01091105594100.00173@c779218-a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a05100303b7c3a4283667@[192.168.239.101]>
In-Reply-To: <a05100303b7c3a4283667@[192.168.239.101]>
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:21 am, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >Today I updated the BIOS of my motherboard, a ABIT KT7A (VIA Apollo
> > KT133A chipset). The kernel I had (2.4.9) started crashing on boot
> > with an invalid page fault, usually right after starting init. I
> > tryed a i686 kernel and noticed it works OK, so I recompiled my
> > crashy kernel only switching the processor type and it also worked.
> > changed it back to Athlon/K7/Duron and it starts crashing.
> >
> >Anyone else experiencing this?
>
> BINGO!
>
> This problem is known about, but this is the first report we've had
> of it on a Duron (as opposed to Athlon), and you've successfully
> tracked it down to the updated BIOS.
>
Actually we've had a couple reports on Durons on KT133A chipsets failing.
We've only had a couple reports of BIOS versions making a difference
though, and it was never really clear which version did what.
> We need the versions of your old and new BIOSes, as accurately as you
> can make it.
Can someone compare the INTERNAL BIOS versions (as opposed to the
external reported by the motherboard manufacturer)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-11 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-11 11:21 [GOLDMINE!!!] Athlon optimisation bug (was Re: Duron kernel crash) Jonathan Morton
2001-09-11 11:27 ` Gergely Tamas
2001-09-11 11:32 ` Gergely Tamas
2001-09-11 11:53 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-11 14:59 ` Roberto Jung Drebes
2001-09-12 14:00 ` VDA
2001-09-12 17:59 ` Janne Pänkälä
2001-09-11 12:59 ` Nicholas Knight [this message]
2001-09-11 14:30 ` J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)
2001-09-11 16:21 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-09-13 2:30 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-13 3:44 ` Dwayne C. Litzenberger
2001-09-13 10:20 ` Alistair Phipps
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-12 4:29 Dmitry Volkoff
2001-09-12 6:28 ` Peter Horton
2001-09-12 7:24 ` J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)
2001-09-12 10:06 ` Alan Cox
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