Athlon Bugs in Linux 2.2?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 8, 1999 @06:06PM from the someone-grab-that-can-o-raid dept.

odo asks: "I'm finding more and more discussion about the Athlon K7 not working with the the Linux v2.2 releases. It seems, from the newsgroup discussions, that I have found that starting on October 6th there have been some people finding problems with the MTRR module being incompatable with the new Athlon chip and causing a kernel panic. It appears to be from the MTRR used in the compiled kernel that comes with many of the popular installations. Which means that you can't even get an installation working enough to be able to fix the kernel. Has any one else seen this?"

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MTRR support by Inoshiro · 1999-11-08 23:22 · Score: 3

Alan Cox (in his daily log) talked about fixing K7 support when his Athlon arrived.

(August 19th entry from this page) "AMD Athlon arrives at last. Its fast, very fast and the kernel is not yet optimised for the K7. The first problem I found is that 2.2.x with MTRR support crashes on boot on the K7. Fixed that with some bits from Linux kernel that had been done without a K7 or docs by someone who guessed very well indeed. "

So get 2.2.13, it should work :-)
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