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From: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linuxbios@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: LinuxBIOS + ASUS CUA + 2.4.5 works; with 2.4.6 locks up
Date: 18 Sep 2001 17:03:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u1y0kspb.fsf@DLT.linuxnetworx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109181655540.28482-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109181655540.28482-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>

Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes:

> We can run the memtest, but I thought that a fully booting kernel was a
> pretty good one.

It is hard to call.  The most interesting case I know of is the VIA kt133
AMD bug.  I believe it is register 0x55 bit 7 that when set causes an
athlon optimized memcpy to crash the machine, but when clear it works.

PIII optimized kernels worked fine.
 
> I'll try that anywy.

I don't expect a run of memtest86 to produce any problems but it just
feels like bad memory in the case you are describing.

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-18 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-18 22:22 LinuxBIOS + ASUS CUA + 2.4.5 works; with 2.4.6 locks up Ronald G Minnich
2001-09-18 22:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-18 22:56   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-09-18 23:03     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-09-18 23:35       ` Mark Hahn
2001-09-18 23:43         ` Eric W. Biederman

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