From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:18:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:18:00 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-114-147.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.114.147]:3981 "EHLO localhost.digitalaudioresources.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:17:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8F9C90.7080100@digitalaudioresources.org> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:17:52 -0700 From: David Hollister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010808 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com CC: Chris Abbey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation? In-Reply-To: <3B8F4A64.8B9DEDE4@redhat.com> 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 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 Digital Audio Resources: http://digitalaudioresources.org