Re: LinuxBIOS + ASUS CUA + 2.4.5 works; with 2.4.6 locks up

Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:35:41 -0400 (EDT)


> It is hard to call. The most interesting case I know of is the VIA kt133
> AMD bug. I believe it is register 0x55 bit 7 that when set causes an
> athlon optimized memcpy to crash the machine, but when clear it works.

"causes" is a bit strong - there are plenty of machines where it
most definitely doesn't effect stability at all. that is, kt133a
machines which use Arjan's fast_copy_page without any problem,
and yet have 0x55:7 set. (my A7V133's is 0x89, for instance.)

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