Re: k6 freeze in kernel 2.0.36

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:11:57 +0100


Hi!

> > > Does the K6-2 400mhz have any known bugs in it of this nature? I'm running a
> > > K6 166 now but I've ordered a new motherboard and I would like to check on
> > > this.
> >
> > NO!
> >
> > Long ago, k6 shipped buggy cpu's, and they are now replacing
> > them. This bug is _ONLY_ present on some of old k6-200, not on
> > anything faster.
>
> I've got an AMD K6/3D 300MHz Stepping A processor that seems to periodically
> Seg11. I'm currently running RedHat 5.2 and am wondering if this behavior will get
> better/worse if I up it to 2.2.1. The thing seems to run fast (599 BOGOMips) but I
> can't count on it with Linux. NT (of all things) didn't have this problem.

Strange. But this is definitely not _that_ k6 bug. If you have this
problem, you should investigate. (RAMs, fan?)

Pavel
PS: _That_ k6 bug is even documented in their errata document. This
must be your local problem or something new.

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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