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On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 12:39 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> I'm still testing some things, but there are some bugs in the NVidia |
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> "sata_nv" part of the AMD64 Linux kernel that have showed up in the |
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> Debian bug archives. Apparently it worked in older kernels and got |
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> broken "recently". I haven't found any differences with or without |
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> either pre-emption, SMP vs. UP, ACPI or APIC. The only thing I've found |
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> so far is that 32-bit kernels seem to work and 64-bit ones don't. At the |
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> moment I've only got a gigabyte of RAM in the machine so I'm not losing |
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> a heck of a lot by running a 32-bit kernel. :) |
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...and all of the extra general-purpose registers and other 64-bit only |
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extensions. AMD64 isn't all about memory access, unlike many other |
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64-bit platforms. |
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