On a related topic, I wonder whether gcc 3.0 will improve Athon
compilations. I have a big number crunching program that runs just as
fast on Windows2000 on my laptop(1Ghz PPro), as on my monster 1.2G
Athlon DDR with FreeBSD. Rob.
"Søren Schmidt" wrote:
>
> It seems David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too.
> > > > There are at least two major problems with VIA chips:
> > >
> > > [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus]
> > >
> > > Are you sure about that?
> >
> > I am. I was having data coruption in a terrable way when I added a 2nd
> > IDE UDA100 drive to a very plain MSI K7T Pro2-A 1.2GHz Athlon system.
>
> Hmm, dont MSI have a fixed BIOS ?
>
> I could add the code to the kernel, but do we have a placeholder
> for such PCI quirks ??
>
> There is nothing new to these kind of problems, lots of chipsets
> has problems that are worked around in the BIOS, and frankly that
> is where such fixes should be IMNHO...
>
> -Søren
>
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