Le Mardi 26 Février 2002 21:13, Baal a écrit : > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 12:47, David Walluck wrote: > > Robert Fox wrote: > > > Agreed it "should" be fixed in the kernel - but how long can we afford > > > to wait - and what are the consequences of NOT adding the option for > > > the next (imminent) Mandrake release?? > > > > Actually, there seems to be a bug in drakboot, where there is > > mem=nonpentium (By default? why?), but when you go to click OK, it says > > that mem must be a number. Obviously, it doesn't have to be a number. > > nopentium was probably written there because you performed an upgrade > from a system that already had the option appended to LILO... > > I think it would be very important to add this since it affects the > majority of AMD cpus used with the AGP port... The change that > mem=nopentium does is simply telling the kernel to use 4k pages instead > of 4M pages and almost no programs can use 4M pages anyway so the > performance loss is absolutely imperceptible. Many person reported big > stability problems when 8.1 came out and this option can prevent that... > > For those interested in knowing if their CPU is affected, you can make > cat /proc/cpuinfo and if the tree following lines are not identical then > your CPU probably has the bug: > > cpu family : 6 > model : 2 > stepping : 2 > > Regards, > > Baal
Is it realted only to this CPU's (from where do you take that values), i'm seeing it and here is what provies cat /proc/cpuifo : processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1399.790 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 2791.83 Will this be included in hardrake, as Known bugs : (pass mem=nopentium instead of none) Stef
