Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

[David Hollister <david@digitalaudioresources.org>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> For the upcomming Red Hat Linux release an athlon kernel
> will be included, and due to the people who have this
> problem, I added a kernel commandline option to disable
> the optimized page_copy() and clear_page() functions.
> The use of this option makes the machines, of the people
> who had this problem, happy again.
> 
> Now I also wrote the 2 functions in question, and I am
> very convinced that they are correct. They also work on
> the vast majority of motherboards, and most of the failure
> cases are cheaper motherboards (or cheap PSU's).

Hey look, folks.  I didn't point a finger and try to blame anybody or anything. 
  I'm as much a Linux advocate as the next guy.  Granted, I have not tried every 
trick under the sun to get it to work.  I don't really care that much.  I can 
live with my memory accesses taking a few microseconds longer.  My point, and my 
only point, to all this was just to add data.  If there's something relatively 
easy I can try, I will.  Otherwise, life goes on.
-- 
David Hollister
Driversoft Engineering:  http://devicedrivers.com
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