Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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Look in the mirror?
The system doesnt stay up for more than 2 hours with ACPI and APIC turned on, and its MY fault?
Turn APIC and ACPI off and the system runs solidily (5 days and counting), and this is not because of Asus's poor BIOS and/or engineering?
It's ME? Oh, of course! it's ME who is to blame for the broken APIC/ACPI on the motherboard! of course!
Is it the reviewers fault his motherboard (Hey, what a coincidence, its an ASUS) exhibits very similar bugs and lockup problems under Linux?
Are you seriously claiming that all the threads on the LKML about NForce 2 hard lockups (mostly affecting the A7N8X) are all the fault of the customers of these boards?
Thats ludicrous, and you dont know what youre talking about.