Here's more than you probably want to know (and more than I understand) on this issue - from a linux distribution site (gentoo), AMD and a kernel developer.
Bottom line: Seems like a problem. There is a fix. The fix may result in a performance hit (and I have an Athlon XP 1700!). The kernel folks are working on it! Terry Smith Cape Cod USA (Read them in the order pasted in). http://lwn.net/2002/0124/kernel.php3 (read the memory paging section first as it has some context) http://lwn.net/2002/0124/a/athlon-agp-problem.php3 http://www.gentoo.org/ On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 23:47, shane wrote: > On Wednesday 23 January 2002 15:29, you spoke unto me thusly: > > > > from what i read, it only affects machines which use AGP. and whose > > > kernals are compiled to pentium or better type cpu's. the bug occurs > > > becoz the athlon / duron processors have a bug when dealing with > > > extended paging in conjunction with AGP. You can read more about it as > > > well as find a quick fix to the problem here: > > > http://www.gentoo.org/ > > > > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but would this affect an XP1800? > > actually, a good question > > yes i think it would, all the 500 (i think) and higher cpus are duron/athlon. > i think that the "xp" is a naming convention only and is not actually a > different processor. this is only my understanding though, i haven't > followed hardware too close in the last year or so... > > does anyone else know if the "xp" cpus are affected? >
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