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, 14 Sep 2001 03:24:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 03:24:02 -0400 Received: from c290168-a.stcla1.sfba.home.com ([24.250.174.240]:15692 "HELO top.worldcontrol.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 03:24:00 -0400 From: brian@worldcontrol.com Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:25:58 -0700 To: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: David Hollister , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Conquering the Athlon optimization troubles Message-ID: <20010914002558.A2046@top.worldcontrol.com> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Litzinger , Anton Altaparmakov , David Hollister , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3BA1472E.2000008@digitalaudioresources.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, David Hollister wrote: > > My motherboard is the Epox 8KTA3+, and I'm running an Athlon 1.4GHz. > > The point to all this is that with the newer BIOS, my machine is now > > up and running absolutely fine with Athlon optimization turned on. On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:28:45AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Maybe you meant 9/6/2001. That is the latest available version. From only > 5 days ago. ... > Congratulations! (-: I would recommend you to run a long memtest86 as well > in particular tests 5 and 8. - They are the ones that used to fail for me > with the inappropriate memmory settings... I have an Epox 8KTA3+ Duron 900MHz system running linux 2.4.9ac5. I oopses to death during boot of Athlon/Duron kernels, works fine with K6 style kernels. I flashed the BIOS with the 9/6/2001 BIOS upgrade, and the Athlon optimized kernel dies in exactly the same way it did before. -- Brian Litzinger Copyright (c) 2000 By Brian Litzinger, All Rights Reserved