Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:04:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Luigi Genoni <> | Subject | Re: Re[2]: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. |
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:31:36PM +0300, Liakakis Kostas wrote: > > It seems to fix the stability problem. We don;t know why, but > > experimetation shows that those _with_ the problem are relieved. This is > > fine! We are happy with it. > > > > We write to a register marked as "don't write" by Via. This is potentialy > > dangerous in ways we don't know yet. > > Additionally, look at who tested the 'fix' up to now: Probably only > people who had a problem before. And for all of them, the problem got > fixed. But do we know what happens if we use this 'fix' on a computer > that is not broken? No. Perhaps it breaks when we apply the 'fix'? No, it won't break. I tried this patch on an Athlon 1300 Mhz 200 FSB, that has worked with athlon optimizzed kernels without any problems, and it still works. I did this just for curiosity, and i was avoiding to post a long series of it works for me too, since I have just abit MBs, and before the patch was out I just putted a working bios on every MB. Anyway I tried the patch on working Athlon.
And let's try to get VIA to tell us what is going on....
bests Luigi
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