Re: K6 and Debian

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Gaarder <gaarder@actech.com> writes:

    Steve> Ben Gertzfield writes:

    Ben> I adore my K6/200 with Debian. But make sure you get a recent
    Ben> revision of the chip -- old versions had an odd condition
    Ben> that made compiles flake out if you had more than 32M of RAM
    Ben> in the box.

    Steve> Can someone give me (or point me to) info on which chips
    Steve> are affected?

You can look at the serial number printed on the chip to find out. 

http://www.chorus.com/~poulot/k6bug.html has oodles of info on the
bug.

Hope this helps!

Ben

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