Re: athlon kernel problems and taroon

["Bryan Hepworth" <bryan redfedora co uk>]

I've had a similar experience with an asus a7v and an athlon1700.

The advanced server refuses to start at all athough on the second attempt I
did the workstation version to install and run. Both attempts were the
default installs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Diehl" <tdiehl rogueind com>
To: <taroon-beta-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: athlon kernel problems and taroon


> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Tom Diehl wrote:
> >
> > > A while back I saw a posting that the athlon kernel and athlon systems
> > > do not play well together. In fact I see numerous segfaults when I
> > > install the athlon kernel.
> >
> > Userspace segfaults or kernel oopses ?
>
> It says something like "taroon kernel: SEGFAULT" and then a bunch of trace
> stuff that even says --------------CUT HERE--------------
>
> I am doing the above from memory. One time it even confused the
filesystems.
> The machine dropped to single user mode and fsck would not run.
>
> If it is useful I can try it again. the data on the machine is expendable.
> Kickstart is a wonderful thing. :-) Before we both go to a lot of
unnecessary
> trouble this is definately NOT a server class machine. It is a desktop
machine
> that I use for testing. If you find another data point useful I will try
to
> get you any useful info I can. It is your call.
>
> > If you're seeing kernel oopses, those appear to be due to some
> > Athlon chips faulting on prefetch(NULL) even though prefetch is
> > defined to never fault.
> >
> > Also, it only faults under some circumstances, which we haven't
> > quite pinned down yet and only only on some Athlon steppings
> > (we haven't exactly pinned down this either).  The kernels in
> > the Taroon up2date channel have a workaround.
>
> Ok, but if I can only run the i686 kernel how do I coax up2date into
giving
> me the up2dated athlon kernel? when I goto rhn it does not offer me an
updated
> kernel. Is there somewhere else I can get the athlon kernel??
>
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