Re: [Transmeta hardware] Update of the CMS under Linux ?

From: Marcus Metzler
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 11:07:44 EST


>>>>> "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Emmanuel> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 10:50, Marcus Metzler wrote:
>> I read the description of your bug and discovered that my
>> problems with my Fujitsu Biblo Loox T93C notebook (AFAIK the
>> Japanese version of the Lifebook 2120) seem to have the same
>> cause. Since you seem to be collecting a list of hardware that
>> has this bug, here is my information: I am using debian testing
>> with kernel 2.6.4 (from kernel.org) and XFree86 Version
>> 4.3.0.1. dmesg gives the following information about the CMS
>> version:
>>
>> CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0084893f 0081813f 00000000
>> 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0084893f 0081813f
>> 000000ce 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache
>> 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (128 bytes/line) CPU:
>> Processor revision 1.4.1.0, 933 MHz CPU: Code Morphing Software
>> revision 4.3.3-9-562 CPU: 20030107 01:17 official release
>> 28.0.1-4.3.3#1 CPU serial number disabled. CPU: After all
>> inits, caps: 0080893f 0081813f 000000ce 00000000 CPU:
>> Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 stepping 03

Emmanuel> Thanks for your input !

Emmanuel> I just added it to my list (I keep a more detailled
Emmanuel> description of each plateform in my archives).

Emmanuel> It's the first 4.3.3 that is reported to have the
Emmanuel> bug. :)

I might add that, although I don't have quantitative data, it seems
that since the last X11 upgrade the bug seems to be less frequent.

Marcus

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