* Victor R. Cardona (vcardona@home.com) [20000416 18:00]:
The normal SuSE kernel is compiled with support for mtrr's and Athlons do not use them.
Slight correction here. Athlons and K6s do offer memory type range registers, aka mtrr. The problem is, that AMD implemented them in the K6 in their own way, while those of the Athlon are PPro/PII/PIII compatible. The kernel in 6.2 has the order, in which it checks for processors, wrong, so it tries the AMD way for Athlons, which will of cause fail.
The updated kernel has the checks corrected, so it will use PPro style mtrr for Athlons.
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote: thanks for the info, but the athlon image from the 6.2 update folder does NOT work on this machine. it wont even get to the mtrr's, it just refuses booting, do i need the kernel for the special ide chipsets, cause the fic mainboard has the VIa chipset?
Philipp
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Development, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany #define NINODE 50 /* number of in core inodes */ #define NPROC 30 /* max number of processes */ -- Version 7 UNIX fuer PDP 11, /usr/include/sys/param.h
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