From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:23:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103588598.32550.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412210026.17426.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
On Llu, 2004-12-20 at 22:26, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> It is very unlikely that you see "Coma" bug. It can be triggered only
> by deliberately coded tight endless loop. "Ugly tokens on the screen"
> suggest that you see something else.
Presumably those tokens included "Oops" somewhere near the top and
function names. The Cyrix stuff is notoriously hard to keep cool so that
may be a good thing to check, as well as running memtest86+ to check the
RAM.
Also some very early stepping 6x86 Cyrixes simply don't run Linux
reliably and it seemed to be cache problems in the CPU.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-18 11:52 Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6 Matthias-Christian Ott
2004-12-20 22:26 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-12-21 0:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-12-21 13:30 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
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