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From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: Re: is this a bug?
To: thodoris@cs.teiher.gr (Thodoris Pitikaris)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:51:48 +0200 (MET DST)
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"Thodoris Pitikaris wrote:"
> As you will see in the attached file (it's a dmesg from the boot)
> I have an 1Ghz athlon cpu with a VIA KT133 on a gigabyte GA-7ZX 
> motherboard with 100mhz SDRAM.When I compiled the kernel with 
> cputype=Athlon I continiusly experienced this crash.When I compiled with 
> cputype=i686 everything went smooth (OS is Redhat 7.1)        

Try the newest -ac patches. They contain discussed on the list workaround
for a VIA chipset bug.
VIA chipsets seem to be unstable when processing fast memory-to-memory
copy.

It is definitely not an Athlon processor problem.

Andrzej
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