From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:22:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:22:01 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:8811 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:21:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:21:49 -0400 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jan Niehusmann Cc: Arjan van de Ven , VDA , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stomping on Athlon bug Message-ID: <20010913082149.B20967@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <17613305632.20010913121304@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <3BA087CA.3BD1D557@redhat.com> <20010913141937.A1873@gondor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010913141937.A1873@gondor.com>; from jan@gondor.com on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:19:38PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:19:38PM +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:17:46AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Interesting; This is exactly the bit that the athlon cool thingy that > > popped up > > here a while ago changed; everybody agreed that it was WAAAAY too > > dangerous > > back then, because PSU's and voltage regulators wouldn't be able to > > cope...... > > But, as far as I understand, STPGNT will not be enabled unless ACPI > power saving is in use, so setting the disconnect on STPGNT bit should > not matter. That is incorrect; it works perferctly well without ACPI. -- The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.