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

Daniel T. Chen (crimsun@email.unc.edu)
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:32:47 -0400 (EDT)

Agreed. Neither my KT133 (Asus A7V bios 1007) nor my KT133A (MSI
K7T-Limited bios 2.8) exhibit the OOPS on boot problem. (For the record,
both have 1 256 pc133 Infineon and 2 128 pc133 Infineons, 1GHz T-bird
[stepping 02].)

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Dan Chen                 crimsun@email.unc.edu
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:


> 1) We dont know if all "fixed" BIOS versions do it
> 2) We dont know if all motherboards do it
> 3) We dont have enough data points to determine if this is a "real fix" yet.
> 4) We dont know if they do it under all circumstances
>    (eg do they read SPD and set it in some situations and not others)
>    It may even be CPU rev specific.
> 
> IMHO its *FAR* too premature to be rolling this into production kernels
> based on the scant evidence we have so far.
> 
> -Dan


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