Kevin Brosius on Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:54:23 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] AMD or Intel P4??


Aaah, is that why turning off APIC in my bios improves things?  What's
the symptom?

Kevin


Bill Jonas wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:02:42PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > Can someone post the way to get around the amd bug.
> 
> Are you referring to the 'noathlon' kernel command-line parameter?
> 
> FWIW, I've been running a 1.2GHz Thunderbird for over a year now with no
> problems.  Just don't enable APIC support when you build your kernel and
> you should be fine.  (Or enable it, and use 'noathlon' (I think).)
> 
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