The article at:
http://lwn.net/2002/0124/a/athlon-agp-problem.php3 seems to have the most concise information. I certainly understand how Steve Orr feels, though. These are pretty arcane issues - I can get the overall gist of it only because I remember some cache coherency issues that were around in the VAX days and some of the interesting design tweaks that went into systems to avoid them. It kind of highlights how issues can crop up with different implementations of the same general processor architecture. I don't know enough about the IA32 architecture to be able to give a talk on it, that's for sure! I just hope they get all this ironed out soon - I'm planning on getting an Asus A7M266D and a couple of 2000+ to run Linux on at home, but not until I'm comfortable that it will work. Bayard (who is running exmh 2.5 on his Tru64 workstation thanks to Paul L. !!) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
