Subject: Re: Cyrix panics
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/07/2000 09:26:21
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:38:16PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> To everyone who has been seeing panics in pmap, with Cyrix CPUs,  after
> the page zero code was added:
> 
> Could you a) try the following patch (it simply disables page zeroing for
> all 6x86 CPUs; it's crude but it should work), and b) could you tell
> me on which processor type you were seeing it?

I'd like to know that this actually helps, because I had to replace the MB
and CPU of my Cyrix machine to get 1.5 running on it.. and I don't want to
spend an hour swapping MB's and then find that Cyrix _still_ does not run
reliably :-/  My Cyrix is a P166+.

  -jm