Re: Athlon/MSI mobo combo broken?

[Gerbrand van der Zouw <g.vanderzouw@chello.nl>]

Hi,

Alan Cox wrote:

> I'd be interested to know if 2.4.6-ac5 Athlon optimised works on your board.
> The reason for this is that it contains the official VIA fixes for their IDE
> corruption problem rather than our own.

I have a MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) mobo (VIA-KT133A chipset) and had a go 
with the 2.4.6-ac5 kernel with Athlon optimisations on. The overall 
impression is that the combination is slightly more stable than kernels 
without the Southbridge fix. I.e. I now manage to boot in single user 
mode, however running anything as advanced as gcc is out of the 
question: oopses all over the place and also some complaints from the 
VM-system.

I am in no way qualified enough to go hacking around in the kernel 
myself, but am quite willing to test any patches that might help towards 
solving the problem.

Cheers,

Gerbrand van der Zouw