Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

Mike Fedyk
2001-08-31T20:53:34Z

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:37:16PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 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.
>

>From other posts, that would be boards based on AMD chipsets, and possibly
SIS or ALI.