From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262476AbUEQT5W (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:57:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262837AbUEQT5V (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:57:21 -0400 Received: from legolas.restena.lu ([158.64.1.34]:58083 "EHLO smtp.restena.lu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262476AbUEQT5K (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 15:57:10 -0400 Subject: Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH] + [PATCH] for nmi_debug=1 + [PATCH] for idle=C1halt, 2.6.5 From: Craig Bradney To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Cc: Jesse Allen , Ross Dickson , Len Brown , a.verweij@student.tudelft.nl, christian.kroener@tu-harburg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Jamie Lokier , Daniel Drake , Ian Kumlien , Allen Martin In-Reply-To: <40A91467.9060501@gmx.de> References: <200404282133.34887.ross@datscreative.com.au> <20040428205938.GA1995@tesore.local> <200404292144.37479.ross@datscreative.com.au> <20040429202413.GA1982@tesore.local> <40916638.2040202@gmx.de> <20040503204520.GA1994@tesore.local> <40A8D9C2.7070608@gmx.de> <1084822323.9714.0.camel@amilo.bradney.info> <40A91467.9060501@gmx.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YnZcDctey4fcxu4SdUFY" Message-Id: <1084823823.9640.6.camel@amilo.bradney.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:57:04 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-YnZcDctey4fcxu4SdUFY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 21:37, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > Craig Bradney wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:26, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > >=20 > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I just made an interesting finding and would like to have comments from= =20 > >>NVidia: > >> > >>Chip Current Value New Value > >>C17 1F0FFF01 1F01FF01 > >>C18D 9F0FFF01 9F01FF01 > >> > >>In fact I have the newer chip revision (lspci says c1), but due to a=20 > >>post at Abit Forums I tried to use the value for the older revision on=20 > >>my board, and guess what: I never had such low idle temps! I am=20 > >>currently even using nvidia binary graphics driver and usually I would=20 > >>be having around 49-51=B0C idle temp, but now it is around 45=B0C, and = it=20 > >>was not the first boot (then the mobo usually shows 5=B0C less). Instea= d=20 > >>the temp steadily fell from >50=B0C to 45=B0C. > >> > >>(esp @nvidia:) Is there anything evil using the old chip's value for th= e=20 > >>new chip? So far I haven't noticed any bad thing about it. Perhaps some= =20 > >>daring nforce2 user with the new revision should try as well. > >> > >=20 > >=20 > > Isnt it the case that that change is the one that brings about > > stability? Was indicated before to be the main causing c1halt crashes. >=20 > Nope, I am changing the 9F to 1F. The "stability byte" was changing the=20 > 0F to 01. I am no using 1F01FF01 instead of 9F01FF01. I guess I wasn't=20 > clear enough. And I wasnt looking hard enough at those characters. :) Interesting find.. Allen.. any comments? Craig --=-YnZcDctey4fcxu4SdUFY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAqRkPi+pIEYrr7mQRAr84AJ453lTeiUOdskiF1J3MhhUpkTxmDACggmvz 3MicVboIHm8oRFmd7d/Ovn0= =OwmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YnZcDctey4fcxu4SdUFY--