The story of the interaction of the Linux 2.4 kernel, AMD procs, and support chipsets continues. Anyone interested will want to take a look at gentoo's latest news on the issue:
http://www.gentoo.org (see 23 Jan 2002 entry) A quote from gentoo's news item: > The GART and the CPU see two different views of memory, and it's the kernel's responsibility to map memory in such a way as to prevent bad interactions. Currently, that isn't happening. Third-party drivers such as the NVIDIA driver for Linux may also have some problems in this area. Now that the Linux kernel development community is aware of the issue, they have started the process of devising a good approach to avoid this memory corruption problem. Disabling extended paging via the mem=nopentium boot option is really not a good long-term solution since it can impact performance, so a better solution is needed. >
