From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:37:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:36:59 -0400 Received: from femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.38]:57755 "EHLO femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:36:43 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: tegeran@home.com To: Arjan van de Ven , Chris Abbey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation? Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:36:19 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <3B8F4A64.8B9DEDE4@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3B8F4A64.8B9DEDE4@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01083102361900.00249@c779218-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 31 August 2001 01:27 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Now I also wrote the 2 functions in question, and I am > very convinced that they are correct. They also work on > the vast majority of motherboards, and most of the failure > cases are cheaper motherboards (or cheap PSU's). Want cheap hardware? Slot-A Athlon 800Mhz non-tbird Soyo K7VIA motherboard, VIA KX133 chipset Generic 300W power supply bought from mwave and, for the other hardware: 1 DVD-ROM drive 1 Plextor PlexWriter CD-RW drive 1 IBM 75GXP 7200RPM 45GB ATA/100 drive 1 Promise ATA/100 HDD controller 1 350MB Western Digital Caviar drive, but this powers down completely when not in use 2 Generic 80mm case fans 1 low-end HSF unit with three small fans 1 GeForce2MX 1 stick of generic 256MB PC133 SDRAM that refuses to run at 133Mhz 1 ISA NIC 1 PCI NIC 1 floppy drive, sony I think, otherwise generic I have never experienced problems with Athlon optimizations, and I *always* compile with them enabled. Prehaps the key lies in Thunderbird vs Non-Thunderbird? When did these problems start showing up, and at what clock speeds? What motherboards? What chipsets? >Greetings, > Arjan van de Ven