From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 2 13:39:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EC537B405 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 13:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010902203952.CVXB19181.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com> for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 13:39:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3B929900.808F485E@home.com> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 13:39:28 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors References: <200109021739.f82HdUY83387@freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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