Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

Dan Hollis
2001-08-31T20:37:53Z

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So what happens when someone is able to duplicate the problem on say AMD
> > 760MP chipset with registered ECC PC2100 ram and 450W power supply?
> > Not to say it has happened yet (I havent got my dual Tyan Tiger MP yet :-)
> > but where would the finger start pointing then?
> That would make it a lot more complex. There were a few cases much earlier
> on with AMD chipset lockups but those have been cured (and were an Athlon
> processor errata where a prefetch of an uncacheable line made a very very
> nasty mess).

Can you define a hardware configuration that if it fails under athlon
optimizations, you would consider a falsification of the "marginal
hardware" theory?

I want a hardware config that will get everyones attention if it fails.

-Dan

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