Re: Another oops (1.3.93)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:38:17 +0300 (EET DST)


On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Matthew White wrote:
>
> I do have a Cyrix chip. 486-DX2/66. And you know, I got another oops on
> Apr. 23. As well, the 00000004 came up. I can send that to you too, if
> you'd like. If it makes a difference, I also a victim of the sig11 bug
> (I even got one while making clean!) but I 99.44% sure it's my cache memory.

Ok, this thing is more or less confirmed - there are some serious
problems with Cyrix chips. Not nice.

That doesn't mean you should all throw out Cyrix - there have been other
manufacturers with buggy chips (including intel), and I'd be happy to try
to come up with a fix for this problem. The real problem right now is
that we don't know _what_ causes the Cyrix problem, so trying to fix it
is pretty much hunt-and-peck unless somebody has some cyrix contacts?

If anybody knows anybody that works for Cyrix, could you please speak up?
Doesn't have to be technical personell - we can try to get the addresses
of some really technical people from the marketing people if anybody
knows those scumbags ;-)

I wouldn't like to ask for this information on the announce newsgroup (if
we can do this silently without upsetting a lot of people I'd be
happier), but that would be one way to reach a lot of people...

Linus