From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261756AbULUNbY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:31:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261757AbULUNbY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:31:24 -0500 Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.26.116.129]:60653 "EHLO webmail.tiscali.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261756AbULUNbQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:31:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41C82587.6030705@tiscali.de> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:30:47 +0100 From: Matthias-Christian Ott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Denis Vlasenko , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6 References: <41C41A04.8030009@tiscali.de> <200412210026.17426.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1103588598.32550.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1103588598.32550.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > Hi! The problem wasn't the comma bug, one of the pci slots is broken. But thanks for your interest. Sincerely Matthias-Christian Ott