From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: S W <egberts@yahoo.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19-pre2 CentaurHauls VIA Samuel 2 stepping 2 SEGFAULT (RESOLVED)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:37:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020317143705.B4006@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16mLIY-00079l-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020317042241.70303.qmail@web10504.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020317042241.70303.qmail@web10504.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:22:41PM -0800, S W wrote:
> I pulled the chipset datasheet for CentaurHauls VIA
> Samuel 2 stepping 2.
>
> Two seperate i386/kernel/setup.c fixes things seems to
> fix this chipset.
>
> 1. Disabled the Branch Predictor in MSR_VIA_FCR
> 2. cachesize=0
> I've settled for cachesize=0.
> Hope this is not a trend here.
Not on the samples I've tested with. I think you have flaky hardware.
Either there is insufficient cooling/power, or the cache is dead.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-17 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 18:07 2.4.19-pre2 Cyrix III SEGFAULT (Cyrix II redux?) S W
2002-03-16 19:42 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-16 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 20:50 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-17 4:22 ` 2.4.19-pre2 CentaurHauls VIA Samuel 2 stepping 2 SEGFAULT (RESOLVED) S W
2002-03-17 13:37 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-03-16 20:50 ` 2.4.19-pre2 Cyrix III SEGFAULT (Cyrix II redux?) Alan Cox
2002-03-19 11:46 ` Padraig Brady
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