Re: funky tyan s2510

[josh <skulcap@mammoth.org>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > gcc never gets all the way through a make... it will die with a
> > sig11, misc asm errors, or random crap.
> 
> If its doing that at random then suspect hardaware

Thats what I thought at first, but after going through three different 
brands of memory and a new (slower) cpu, im not sure what to think.

> > This is a serverworks chipset... i have always thought that they were
> > a bit, you know, funny.  :)   
> 
> Serverworks have an obscure MTRR bug in a few chips (which we handle) but
> quite honestly they don't show up a lot in kernel bug reports.

I actually like SW chipsets... they do some neat things... more than
me at least. 


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