Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply.

From: Roberto Jung Drebes (drebes@inf.ufrgs.br)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 18:00:28 EST

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On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Simen Thoresen wrote:

> Why? by default it is '09' on my system, it does not experience any
> oops-problems, and the spec still reads it to be '00' and 'dont
> program'.
>
> I'm now applying the patch and rebuilding the kernel to permanently zero it.

The patch is not supposed to set it to 0, only to clear bit 7, so if your
system has it as 0x09, the patch has no effect, since bit 7 is already
cleared.

-- Roberto Jung Drebes <drebes@inf.ufrgs.br> Porto Alegre, RS - Brasil http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~drebes/

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