Re: [TCLUG:21491] Coppermine and Linux

[^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:41:56PM -0400, Charles Fulton wrote:
> I just got a coppermine based laptop (hyperdata) that won't boot
> linux without disabling the L2 cache.  I've tried RH 6.2, RH 6.9 and
> Debian 2.4 (slink).
> 
> It runs windoze, FreeBSD and OpenBSD just fine.
> 
> It hangs on the "Loading Linux" line displaying variable numbers of
> periods.  Debian is the only one that actually gave me an error of
> "out of memory".
> 
> I read in the kernel mail archives about a detection problem for the
> coppermine cache but the patch was dated late last year.
> 
> Linux does work without using the cache... and I compiled a
> 2.4-test8 kernel which had the same problems.

Look into the ./tests or ./testing directory for patches against
test8.  BTW, test8's VM is really FSCKED up.  It'd be best if you used
the stable kernel instead.

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  Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
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