Re: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot. (Linus Torvalds)
Stephen Clark (seclark@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:57:42 -0500
Trever Adams wrote:
>
> > In article <368874C0.10A18612@bleh.org>, <nads@bleh.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >I also have a cyrix (686/200, not MediaGX) and I recompiled without SMP (I
> > >didn't even have SMP in 2.1.132, i guess the patch enabled it by default
> > >again) I still experienced an oops.
> >
> > Recompile the kernel as a i486.
> >
> > It seems that the Cyrix chips do not do "rdtsc", even when they call
> > themselves 686's.
>
> Not all Cyrix chips are that way. I can say that the Cyrix MII 300s
> have a working rdtsc (minus the rest to 0 problems that are already
> known and handled). I have one acting as an email server (running
> several other internal services... some of which are "high load") and a
> development machine, which for the time being has an even higher load.
> If you kill the rdtsc in the MediaGX or some of the other early Cyrix
> 6z86 please don't go overboard and kill it for all Cyrix.
>
> Trever
>
I agree with Trever - Some web pages say "Works Best with IE 4.0"
Linux will have to say "Works Best with Intel Inside!".
My $.02
Steve
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