I did a quick search again (I did one when I ran into
the problem)- the difference is major in the way the
T-bird's L2 cache is implemented - refer to
http://www.trainwrecker.com/Reviews/Tbird/TBirdKA71.htm
.... Many were shocked and annoyed when AMD announced
that the "Athlon™ processor featuring
performance-enhancing on-chip L2 cache memory," AKA
Thunderbird, had compatibility issues with VIA's
KX-133 chipset. The Slot A form factor model would
only be officially supported by AMD's own 750
"Irongate" chipset and would be shipped exclusively to
OEM's and in limited quantities. VIA would have to
address the issue in their upcoming KT-133 chipset,
and users intending to upgrade have to "migrate" to
the Socket A form factor.
......
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmmmm... I believe you, it was just my
> understanding that both the Slot-A
> Athlons and the Socket-A T-Birds (Athlons) were both
> 7x86 gen cpus.... :-/
>
> Daniel McKee
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, ja connor wrote:
>
> > A Thunderbird really is "Not" and Athlon! At least
> 1
> > transistor someplace is different. By the way
> boxed
> > Redhat 6.2 would run not run on early Thunderbirds
> > either but would run Athlons. I do not know why -
> I
> > just used my Intel box instead :(.
> >
> >
> > --- Daniel McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I had to modify his directions, but i kinda got
> it
> > > to work...It's still
> > > insisting on building a .i686 rpm not a .athlon
> > > RPM.... I figured out how to
> > > force a .athlon RPM, but when I go to install
> it, I
> > > get "incompatable
> > > architecture"... ??? I got a Socket A 1GHz
> > > Thunderbird, if that's not a
> > > Athlon, I don't know what is...lol
> > >
> > > Anyhow, can someone jump in and help [us] out?
> Is
> > > Mandrake not Athlon savvy
> > > yet or ?? Why is my system a i686 instead of a
> > > "Athlon"??? And, before
> > > someone goes jumping my back about "its the same
> > > thing" go look in
> > > /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and you'll see a "athlon"
> > > directory and a "i686"
> > > directory... Why the Athlon directory then??
> TIA
> > >
> > >
> > > Daniel McKee
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:38 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] rebuilding the kernel rpm
> for
> > > a athlon based system...
> > >
> > >
> > > > root wrote:
> > > > > Hi, someone about a week ago posted some
> > > directions on how to rebuild
> > > the
> > > > > kernel srpm to be optimized for a athlon
> > > cpu...can you please repost the
> > > > > directions??? TIA
> > > > >
> > > > > Daniel McKee
> > > > i followed it verbatim and it didn't work for
> > > me...:-(
> > > > --
> > > > pax
> > > > -m-
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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