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  • Bug#234556: Possible Transmeta CMS bug

    From Mike Hommey@1:229/2 to Emmanuel Fleury on Fri Aug 20 06:10:07 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.x
    From: [email protected]

    On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
    Hi,

    I just write here a quick update of the bug to tell you the state of the process.
    (...)

    I'm impressed with the amount of energy you've put into tracking this
    bug, but you should have read history of the bugs merged with yours... Especially
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216933&msg=63

    Mike


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  • From Emmanuel Fleury@1:229/2 to Mike Hommey on Fri Aug 20 09:00:14 2004
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    From: [email protected]

    On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 05:51, Mike Hommey wrote:

    I'm impressed with the amount of energy you've put into tracking this
    bug, but you should have read history of the bugs merged with yours... Especially
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216933&msg=63

    I read this one. In a matter of fact, I started to really hunt the bug
    after reading this one, mainly because it was way too imprecise to do
    something with it (for example we don't know what cache we are speaking
    about, we have no idea of where is located the problem in the Xserver,
    and so on).

    I feel much more knowledgeable with my explanation than with this one. Moreover, I have some "evidences" that the CMS is involved (like the
    fact that running a copy of the Xserver is free of bug).

    The problem is now: What to do ?

    We cannot really access to the CMS and this bug seems to appears only
    from time to time in very special conditions.

    Regards
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    Emmanuel Fleury

    Computer Science Department, | Office: B1-201
    Aalborg University, | Phone: +45 96 35 72 23
    Fredriks Bajersvej 7E, | Fax: +45 98 15 98 89
    9220 Aalborg East, Denmark | Email: [email protected]



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  • From Emmanuel Fleury@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 17:50:09 2004
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    Well,

    You were right, it seems that I'm far from being the first one to have
    unveiled this bug: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=455

    It was in April.

    After reading this, I checked my version of the CMS on my computer
    (it is in the dmesg):

    CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0080893f 0081813f 00000000 00000000
    CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0080893f 0081813f 0000004e 00000000
    CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
    CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (128 bytes/line)
    CPU: Processor revision 1.4.1.0, 933 MHz
    CPU: Code Morphing Software revision 4.3.2-9-343
    CPU: 20020426 17:54 official release 4.3.2#2
    CPU: After all inits, caps: 0080893f 0081813f 0000004e 00000000
    CPU: Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 stepping 03

    Now, I'm looking for a way to upgrade my CMS.
    I know it is possible. For example: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/compaqtabletpc/us/locate/97_5344.html

    See the section:
    * Operating System - Enhancements
    * Tablet PC Transmeta Crusoe Code Morphing Software Upgrade


    Regards
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    Emmanuel Fleury

    Computer Science Department, | Office: B1-201
    Aalborg University, | Phone: +45 96 35 72 23
    Fredriks Bajersvej 7E, | Fax: +45 98 15 98 89
    9220 Aalborg East, Denmark | Email: [email protected]



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