From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
Cc: error27@email.com, chris@memtest86.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memtest86 on the opteron
Date: 08 Jun 2003 08:27:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73of195bj1.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055040745.27939.3.camel@camp4.serpentine.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 14:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Well, as opteron is i386-compatible, you should be able to simply use
> > i386 memtest...
>
> It doesn't work. Crashes and reboots the system shortly after it
> starts. The serial console support appears to have bit-rotted, too, so
> I've not been able to capture an output screen to diagnose the problem.
The problem is the CPUID handling in memtest86. It does not expect
the 15 model number on AMD systems. Someone did a patch for it, but
I don't remember where they put it. Anyways should be easy to fix again
given the source.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-08 6:14 UTC|newest]
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2003-06-08 6:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-06-08 6:44 ` memtest86 on the opteron Warren Togami
2003-06-09 16:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-06-09 20:26 Dan Carpenter
2003-06-09 21:18 ` Dave Jones
2003-06-09 21:29 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-06-11 15:51 ` Dan Carpenter
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2003-06-07 20:27 dan carpenter
2003-06-07 21:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-06-08 2:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-06-08 8:06 ` Pavel Machek
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