Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 13:39:28 -0700 From: Rob <europax@home.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <3B929900.808F485E@home.com> References: <200109021739.f82HdUY83387@freebsd.dk>
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On a related topic, I wonder whether gcc 3.0 will improve Athon compilations. I have a big number crunching program that runs just as fast on Windows2000 on my laptop(1Ghz PPro), as on my monster 1.2G Athlon DDR with FreeBSD. Rob. "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > It seems David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > > > Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. > > > > There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: > > > > > > [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] > > > > > > Are you sure about that? > > > > I am. I was having data coruption in a terrable way when I added a 2nd > > IDE UDA100 drive to a very plain MSI K7T Pro2-A 1.2GHz Athlon system. > > Hmm, dont MSI have a fixed BIOS ? > > I could add the code to the kernel, but do we have a placeholder > for such PCI quirks ?? > > There is nothing new to these kind of problems, lots of chipsets > has problems that are worked around in the BIOS, and frankly that > is where such fixes should be IMNHO... > > -Søren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- The Numeric Python EM Project www.members.home.net/europax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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