Re: [TCLUG:21491] Coppermine and Linux

[Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org>]

There are patches avail too.

http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t8p1-vmpatch2

Its called a dev kernel for a reason :)

* ^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net> [000920 18:12]:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
>   Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
>               http://wookimus.net/chewie


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