Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

[Kasper Sandberg]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 22:29 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > and i am very very sure its because of this, i can run with the kernel
> > (atleast with rc5 i had that long) for 10 days, and then chroot in, run
> > the 32bit apps, and within hours of using, hardlock.
> 
> Early AMD K8 platforms had a hardware bug that could have caused
> such hardlocks when running 32bit code under 64bit (independent of anything 
> the kernel does). If you have such a board/CPU try a BIOS update.
well, 2.6.18 were 100% stable, none of these issues.

however you have caught my attention, cause i have one of the first
amd64's, a 3200+ 1mb cache, socket 754. and an asus board. ill try find
a floppy and upgrade the bios if there are updates available.
> 
> -Andi
> 

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