I've played with the new BP6 NJ BIOS and decided that yes, it is more
stable than LP. I looped a kernel compile with make -j8 for ~16 hours,
logging all output, and no errors at all. At the same time I left my TV
card going, MP3s playing, the Superquadrics OpenGL screensaver using
hardware accel on my TNT2, and downloading the new Q3DemoTest.
I don't know if the above is a valid test of stability, but I'm not sure
if the LP version would of been able to do that.
On a somewhat related note, the bttv driver seems to be polling IRQ19 WAY
more than I remember it doing before [Kernel 2.3.28 BTW]. It seems to be
increasing by at least 50 every two seconds even when not in use. Is this
normal behavior and I just haven't noticed it before?
CPU0 CPU1
0: 4421670 4388629 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 48830 49037 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 1182503 1173529 IO-APIC-edge serial
5: 2182303 2189977 IO-APIC-edge soundblaster
8: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 443504 444735 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
17: 835345 865865 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
19: 2584675 2541813 IO-APIC-level bttv
NMI: 8791982 8791982
LOC: 8810224 8810225
ERR: 0
--Ian Ehrenwald
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