On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:55:37AM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:53:14AM -0600, Lucas wrote:
> > > This did the trick. I didn't try it previously because I have a duron, but
> > > I guess Red Hat also installs the Athlon kernel on Durons.
> > >
>
> >From what I could gather from the buzilla report was that there are
> issues with the way some of the VIA chipsets ar optimized. The Athlon
> specific code in the kernel uses a very fast memory IO routine that can
> cause the bus bandwidth to be exceeded. Apparently there is a chipset
> setting that the kernel guys have found that helps this but since it is
> undocumented there is no way of knowing if it is dangerous to your data
> or not. They are talking to AMD about it.
I know there have been VIA bugs that the kernel guys have had a hard
time dealing with, since Via has been not helpful (but I think I did
read not too long ago that there is some contact now with VIA).
<wild guess>The board I used uses the new kt266a chipset, so maybe it's
not a problem with that one. </wild guess>
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