From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: A new Athlon 'bug'.
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:41:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021126194129.GA24152@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021125213447.GB12236@elf.ucw.cz>
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:34:47PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Very recent Athlons (Model 8 stepping 1 and above) (XPs/MPs and mobiles)
> > have an interesting problem. Certain bits in the CLK_CTL register need
> > to be programmed differently to those in earlier models. The problem arises
> > when people plug these new CPUs into boards running BIOSes that are unaware
> > of this fact.
> What happens when bit is programed wrongly?
The documentation I have says nothing other than "...platforms are more
robust..." with the fix. It's purely a reliability thing, but as it's
fiddling with the CPU clock, it's possible that it may *slightly*
affect performance too.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-26 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-21 15:56 A new Athlon 'bug' davej
2002-11-25 21:34 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-26 19:41 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-11-29 15:08 ` Daniel Nofftz
2002-11-29 15:11 ` Dave Jones
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