Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:07:52 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Machine check expection panic |
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> The CPU's aren't overclocked and have worked fine for > me under much heavier loads than booting a kernel for
It could be corrected ECC errors in the cache. If that happens I would consider it a hardware problem
(now hidden with the disabled bank).
> at least a year. Using the 2.4 kernel that is. Once > I remove the exception code from the kernel it boots > fine and runs fine under any load I put it under.
I maintain that such a magic hack needs at least a big fat comment.
I still find the change very suspicious, there isn't any errata that says that bank 0 is bad on Athlon.
Also disabling a whole bank just for some buggy CPUs is quite a sledgehammer, it would be probably better to identify the bank 0 sub unit that causes it and only turn that off.
-Andi
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