It seems to depend a great deal upon the motherboard. I've got an Asus A7M266 with a 1.2GHz Athlon, and it's had no trouble whatsoever with the 2.4 kernel's Athlon optimizations.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:20AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I hear that 2.4 has an Athlon option, but I'm not sure how well it > works, I read some bad things about it on this list yesterday. (Look > for athlon in yesterday's mail archive). But you can always try it, > then go to another kernel if it has problems. >
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