Re: Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

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On the iwill mobo? (I haven't heard of this problem on other
motherboards.)

I'll grab the latest -ac today and give it a try this evening. 

(Just for reference, the system is the Iwill kk266, 1.2G tbird, 512M
pc133, ata66 drive - everything has AMD-approved stickers and nothing is
overclocked.)

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Alan Cox did have cause to say:

> > settings or what, but whenever I try to run a 2.4.x kernel on my machine 
> > with k7 optimizations the computer will never fully boot and seems to 
> > give random errors about being "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer 
> > dereference at virtual address xxxxxxxx" and other errors.
> 
> I run the K7 optimisations in 2.4.x-ac built with gcc 2.96-69 or later with no
> problems. I've not tested them with egcs-1.1.2. The earlier 2.4.* had problems
> on later Athlons which have both fxsave and movntq/sfence. That was fixed a 
> while back tho
> 
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