Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:55:03 +0200 | From | Jan Niehusmann <> | Subject | Re: Re[2]: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. |
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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'?
OTOH, I think there are only two ways to find out: Either we put the 'fix' into a mainline kernel (linux -pre kernel or -ac kernel should be enough) as a default and look if somebody starts complaining, or we convince VIA to tell us what the register in question really does.
Jan
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