Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:22:20 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. | From | (bill davidsen) |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0109191249130.26700-100000@anime.net> you write: | 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.
We know one thing it's doing, keeping user programs from causing errors. If the error didn't occur in user mode I would be more careful, but having been shown that it does, I will use the fix. Since the older BIOS versions set it the other way, I'm willing to assume it's safe and move forward.
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