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From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:30:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C82587.6030705@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1103588598.32550.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Llu, 2004-12-20 at 22:26, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>  
>
>>It is very unlikely that you see "Coma" bug. It can be triggered only
>>by deliberately coded tight endless loop. "Ugly tokens on the screen"
>>suggest that you see something else.
>>    
>>
>
>Presumably those tokens included "Oops" somewhere near the top and
>function names. The Cyrix stuff is notoriously hard to keep cool so that
>may be a good thing to check, as well as running memtest86+ to check the
>RAM.
>
>Also some very early stepping 6x86 Cyrixes simply don't run Linux
>reliably and it seemed to be cache problems in the CPU.
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Hi!
The problem wasn't the comma bug, one of the pci slots is broken. But 
thanks for your interest.

Sincerely
Matthias-Christian Ott

      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-21 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-18 11:52 Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6 Matthias-Christian Ott
2004-12-20 22:26 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-12-21  0:23   ` Alan Cox
2004-12-21 13:30     ` Matthias-Christian Ott [this message]

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