Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:05:34 11/23/98
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On November 23, 1998 at 10:39:54, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On November 23, 1998 at 06:24:34, Alessandro Damiani wrote: > >>There was a post from Bob Hyatt some days ago. He said the AMD k6 has an error. >>If I remember it right it was wrong branching prediction. I don't know if the >>error has been eliminated in the k6-2. > >If the "error" is branch prediction, that just makes the chip slower, but it'll >stll do what you want it to... > >-Tom No.. this error is a killer. If it happens, the chip locks up and not even a soft reset will clear it... requires a total power-down. It is similar to the "foof" bug for intel, but intel found a quick work-around to fix this. AMD hasn't so far. Been a big topic on the linux-SMP mailing list.
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