[H-GEN] AMD K6 Chip

[David Jericho]

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Sid Young wrote:

> At 00:38 7/09/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >I have been reading a number of reports claiming considerable
> >difficulties with AMD K6 chips with Linux - specifically when memory is
> >over 32 MB. 
> >
> >Does anyone have some definitive information on this or is it still
> >rumour?

IIRC, it is a recognized problem with the early AMD K6's and has been
discussed on linux-kernel for a little while. The later batches don't have
a problem. I understand AMD is going to replace the faulty chips.

> Its more than likely the problem is with Cyrix chips. The AMD chip sets
> always work well.

True, but I've still found commerical software that _refuses_ to run on
either Cyrix or AMD chips. 

Oh, a nice rumour at the moment is about a possible Quad processor
motherboard coming out soon, just for K6's. And it is sposed to be Intel
APIC compatible, therefore Linux will run without modification. Imagine,
a quad K6, running at 300MHz each and a 100MHz bus. Now that is a 30
second kernel compile ;)

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