Re: Cyrix 6x86 Comma Bug 2.6

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

Alan Cox wrote:

> On Llu, 2004-12-20 at 22:26, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>  
>
> > It is very unlikely that you see "Coma" bug. It can be triggered only
> > by deliberately coded tight endless loop. "Ugly tokens on the screen"
> > suggest that you see something else.
> >    
>
> Presumably those tokens included "Oops" somewhere near the top and
> function names. The Cyrix stuff is notoriously hard to keep cool so that
> may be a good thing to check, as well as running memtest86+ to check the
> RAM.
>
> Also some very early stepping 6x86 Cyrixes simply don't run Linux
> reliably and it seemed to be cache problems in the CPU.
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Hi!
The problem wasn't the comma bug, one of the pci slots is broken. But 
thanks for your interest.

Sincerely
Matthias-Christian Ott
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