Re: Followup to previous post: Atlon/VIA Instabilities

From: Seth Goldberg (bergsoft@home.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 05:36:30 EST


Hi Tom,

  Nope. No emulation here. Thanks for trying tho ;).

 --Seth

Tom Leete wrote:
>
> Seth Goldberg wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > So it seems that CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW is simply used to
> > enable access to the routines in mmx.c (the athlon-optimized
> > routines on CONFIG_K7 kernels), so then it appears that somehow
> > this is corrupting memory / not behaving as it should (very
> > technical, right?) :)...
> >
> > --Seth
>
> This is a shot in the dark. Do you have floating-point emulation on
> (CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y)?
>
> Tom
>
> --
> The Daemons lurk and are dumb. -- Emerson
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