Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:51:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. |
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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.
-Dan
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