Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:59:34 -0400 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:51:07PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > If it were only 5%, I would vote for disabling the optimisation given the > > number of problems; however it's 2x _and_ you can trigger the bug as normal > > user from userspace too... so we need to fix the hardware/bios. > > But we really dont know what the hell that bit is doing. It might trigger > some other obscure bugs and make things a real mess. > > Until we get some answer from VIA its IMHO a bad idea to start twiddling > this bit willy-nilly on all machines.
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