Re: "clock timer configuration lost" on Serverworks chipset

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 17 May 2001 01:17:02 +0100 (BST)


> How well has the problem been nailed down? Could it be that it just
> showed up first on VIA and the real cause (and fix) remains to be
> discovered? Or does Serverworks somehow have an identical bug in
> their chipset?

There is a notional off by one in the check at least by the rules of the
original chip which do allow the overflow value to be visible momentarily.
Later -ac checks for > not >=

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