VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug (AKA Linux Kernel with Athlon optimizations bug)

Troels Walsted Hansen (troels@thule.no)
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:21:57 +0100

Remember the pci_fixup_via_athlon_bug() (AKA "Athlon bug stomper")
function which went into kernel 2.4.14 after much discussion?

Apparently the mysterious register 55 in the Northbridge controls a
buggy Memory Write Queue timer. They finally acknowledged the problem
when Nvidia drivers and Windows XP started pushing the hardware enough
to trigger the bug...

http://bbs.pcstats.com/viahardware/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=863
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Troels Walsted Hansen




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