From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel not booting when configured for Athlon
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:34:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC729B0.577C352E@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110121547.f9CFlXx11575@wing0.lancs.ac.uk>
steveb@unix.lancs.ac.uk wrote:
>
> I've just replace my Pentium-III system with an Athlon-based one, I rebuilt
> the kernel with 'processor Family' changed from 'Pentium III' to Athlon/Duron/K7, and it failed to boot - it goes as far as "OK, booting the kernel" and hangs.
>
> I can boot a kernel supposedly built for Pentium-III without any apparent problems.
Check the archives. Apparently there is an issue with the highly optimized
Athlon specific memory access/clearing routines that leads to instability on
some motherboards/BIOS revisions.
There is a fix available that seems to clear this up, but it hasn't made it into
the mainstream kernel yet.
The only real difference between Athlon and PIII kernels are some
Athlon-specific optimized assembly-code. The PIII versions still run, just not
quite as fast.
Chris
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2001-10-12 15:47 kernel not booting when configured for Athlon steveb
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