Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Stomping on Athlon bug | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 13 Sep 2001 10:33:36 -0600 |
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Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:21:49AM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:19:38PM +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > > > But, as far as I understand, STPGNT will not be enabled unless ACPI > > > power saving is in use, so setting the disconnect on STPGNT bit should > > > not matter. > > > > That is incorrect; it works perferctly well without ACPI. > > Exactly what is incorrect? > AFAICS, STPGNT is not triggered by hlt, so the linux idle function > doesn't set STPGNT.
Hmm. At least on the AMD76[12] you can trigger a processor disconnect on hlt. However the buggy BIOS had disconnects disabled so it doesn't/shouldn't matter.
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