Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Feb 1998 19:14:11 +0100 | From | Ove Ewerlid <> | Subject | Re: Pentium II stepping 4 - problems with SMP! |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Today I got a new system that is identical apart from the processors > > being of stepping 4 (and a minor BIOS upgrade). > > Yes. Your vendor has a faulty bios that doesnt correctly set the slave CPU > MTRR's. Send it back buy a real one, or if you really want to trust a vendor > who cant read specs try the patch on www.uk.linux.org/SMP
Obfuscating the fix-bios patch (for 2.0.x) into 2.1.85 fixes the problem. (Some trivial changes wrt to have_cpuid)
Some data:
Award BIOS v4.51PG MB P6LX2-A V1.3 (19971217)
Thanks!
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