On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Robert Fox wrote: > Bottom line is - my machine crashes HARD without this option - and I > would venture to guess there are several others out there who also have > AMD based machines - and some of these people may not be technical > enough to find and/or install this option in lilo.conf - too hard for a > newbie.
True. This is a workaround for the cache consistency problems that occur with AGP video cards and AMD CPUs. It hurts performance, so it shouldn't be used everywhere. At the same time, I haven't heard of a real fix (which is non-trivial) for the problem, so waiting for one in the kernel may not make sense either. --- Stan Seibert
