Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terry Lambert writes: : Are you sure it's not just a CMD640 IDE controller? They are : known to have issues; Linux has a patch... FreeBSD used to, but : I think it got yanked out, or was just turned off by default. The CMD640 had many DMA corruption bugs. Many are

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-04 Thread Jason Andresen
Terry Lambert wrote: > > David O'Brien 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 a

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien 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 da

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-03 Thread Moran, Chris
AIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors > > Erik Greenwald writes: > > [Erik Greenwald too] > > >> I'm using both of those (iwill kk266) with

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Rob
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: > > O

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
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 problem

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread David O'Brien
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

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-01 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
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

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Erik Greenwald writes: > [Erik Greenwald too] >> I'm using both of those (iwill kk266) with a thunderbird 850, and >> haven't had problems in fbsd. Linux flakes out a bit when I tell >> it I have a k7 processor, so I told it I have a k6 and it works fine. > > sorry, this thread was supposed to s

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Erik Greenwald
> > > > > > > > Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 > > > chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such > > > motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the > > > difference?). For more info, check out: > > Well, I

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
> > > > Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 > > chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such > > motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the > > difference?). For more info, check out: Well, I've been using an a

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-30 Thread Erik Greenwald
> Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 > chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such > motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the > difference?). For more info, check out: I'm using both of those (iwill kk266)