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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:03:45 -0700
From:      Collins Richey <erichey2@attbi.com>
To:        bsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Athlon bug ?
Message-ID:  <20020119080345.66c66b85.erichey2@attbi.com>

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Reported on the gentoo linux users list - a problem with NVIDIA drivers
and Athlon.  The bug appears to be generic and Athlon specific.


"Fortunately, I was able to reach Terrence Ripperda from the NVIDIA 
Linux driver team.  He didn't have a solution but did mention that 
there quite a few Athlon CPUs have a particular bug where the Athlon 
will corrupt memory if it is using 4Mb page tables with AGP.  He said 
that you could tell the kernel to *not* use 4Mb page tables by passing 
the 'mem=nopentium' option to the kernel at boot-time, ie via
GRUB. "

Has anyone seen similar behavior on FreeBSD, and is there a similar
boot-time workaround for FreeBSD?

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
WWTLRD? - FreeBSD 4.4 + xfce + sylpheed

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