Re: Athlon oops traced to CONFIG_MK7 code in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

2001-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm interested if there is an explanation of the MK7 specific code in mmx.c and > whether that could really be the source of the problem. I would like to get > to the bottom of this. As far as we can tell the problem is 'using a VIA chipset'. The code itself is a fast copying loop using

Re: Athlon oops traced to CONFIG_MK7 code in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

2001-07-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:10:46AM -0800, Richard Chan wrote: > Athlon oops saga continues - I consistently get Athlon kernels oopsing > during the boot up process either in rc.sysinit or loading of usb modules > (this is a RedHat system 7.1). These kernels can boot to a shell init=/bin/sh > but

Re: Athlon oops traced to CONFIG_MK7 code in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

2001-07-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:10:46AM -0800, Richard Chan wrote: Athlon oops saga continues - I consistently get Athlon kernels oopsing during the boot up process either in rc.sysinit or loading of usb modules (this is a RedHat system 7.1). These kernels can boot to a shell init=/bin/sh but once

Re: Athlon oops traced to CONFIG_MK7 code in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

2001-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
I'm interested if there is an explanation of the MK7 specific code in mmx.c and whether that could really be the source of the problem. I would like to get to the bottom of this. As far as we can tell the problem is 'using a VIA chipset'. The code itself is a fast copying loop using

Athlon oops traced to CONFIG_MK7 code in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

2001-07-06 Thread Richard Chan
Athlon oops saga continues - I consistently get Athlon kernels oopsing during the boot up process either in rc.sysinit or loading of usb modules (this is a RedHat system 7.1). These kernels can boot to a shell init=/bin/sh but once I try to do stuff like inserting modules they oops left, right,

Athlon oops traced to CONFIG_MK7 code in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c

2001-07-06 Thread Richard Chan
Athlon oops saga continues - I consistently get Athlon kernels oopsing during the boot up process either in rc.sysinit or loading of usb modules (this is a RedHat system 7.1). These kernels can boot to a shell init=/bin/sh but once I try to do stuff like inserting modules they oops left, right,