Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

Alan Cox
2001-05-05T07:17:36Z

> > one of them to a new mb with a non-VIA chipset (Asus A7A266), and it boot=
> ed the
> > first Athlon kernel I tried (2.4.4). No other changes to .config, same
> > processor as before, same memory, same disks, same video, same case, same=
> power
> > cord, you name it.
>
> damn. I guess the saving of 200$ on the MSI has probably been
> 300$ down the drain :(

Dont panic just yet. Manfred's observation could mean we hit chipset specific
behaviour on prefetches.