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, 7 Sep 2001 14:11:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:11:21 -0400 Received: from as4-1-7.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.31.238]:28552 "EHLO k-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:11:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3B990D50.3060101@stesmi.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:09:20 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ejolson@math.uci.edu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Some experiences with the Athlon optimisation problem In-Reply-To: <200109071718.KAA03472@math.uci.edu> 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 Hi. >>The old Athlon reads: >> A1133AMS3C >> AVIA 0115TPAW >> 95262550081 >> >>The new (non working) one: >> A1200AMS3C >> AXIA 0121RPDW >> 95987660990 >> > > The first line can be decoded using AMDs documentation at > > http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/index.html > > In particular > Anyone know what the second line means? It is quite mysterious > that the word VIA appears on the chip that works with VIA KT133A > and not on the other :-) The first letters, be they 4, 5 or 6 or whatever is stepping. So the old is AVIA stepping, the new is the AXIA stepping. The nextcoming four numbers are production week, ie 2001 week 15 and 2001 week 21. I can't remember the letters. // Stefan