From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:11:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:11:27 -0400 Received: from [212.18.228.90] ([212.18.228.90]:49170 "HELO carrot.linuxgrrls.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:11:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3B28FE41.8010908@linuxgrrls.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:11:13 +0100 From: Rachel Greenham Organization: LinuxGrrls.Org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac6 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 Netscape6/6.1b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Monniaux Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more on VIA 686B (trials) In-Reply-To: <20010614194402.A19960@picsou.chatons> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Monniaux wrote: >I replaced this mobo+Duron with an ASUS A7V133+Athlon, which >work perfectly well. >Athlon-optimized kernel, UDMA100, no problem whatsoever. > Which is odd, because that's exactly my combination (ASUS A7V133 + Athlon), and I get crashes with DMA on anything from 2.4.3-ac7 onwards, but up to 2.4.3-ac6 is rock-steady. (my crash test is "bonnie -s 1024" :-)) I wonder what's different between our machines (apart from distro, which I wouldn't expect to be relevant)? Clock speed? We tried downclocking my Athlon to 1.0 GHz but it made no difference. I've been tinkering (have no kernel programming experience) with selectively forward-porting the 2.4.3-ac6 code to newer kernels for my own use at least, but haven't got it right yet. -- Rachel