Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:30:47 +0100 | From | Matthias-Christian Ott <> | Subject | Re: Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6 |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Llu, 2004-12-20 at 22:26, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > >>It is very unlikely that you see "Coma" bug. It can be triggered only >>by deliberately coded tight endless loop. "Ugly tokens on the screen" >>suggest that you see something else. >> >> > >Presumably those tokens included "Oops" somewhere near the top and >function names. The Cyrix stuff is notoriously hard to keep cool so that >may be a good thing to check, as well as running memtest86+ to check the >RAM. > >Also some very early stepping 6x86 Cyrixes simply don't run Linux >reliably and it seemed to be cache problems in the CPU. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > Hi! The problem wasn't the comma bug, one of the pci slots is broken. But thanks for your interest.
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