Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:01:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:01:13 -0500 Received: from dns.uni-trier.de ([136.199.8.101]:48048 "EHLO rzmail.uni-trier.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:01:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:08:32 +0100 (CET) From: Daniel Nofftz To: Dave Jones cc: Pavel Machek , , , Subject: Re: A new Athlon 'bug'. In-Reply-To: <20021126194129.GA24152@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 37 On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:34:47PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > What happens when bit is programed wrongly? > > The documentation I have says nothing other than "...platforms are more > robust..." with the fix. It's purely a reliability thing, but as it's > fiddling with the CPU clock, it's possible that it may *slightly* > affect performance too. hi! maybe somone remembers that i hacked a little bit with the power saving modes of the athlon processor. so far as i know, the clk_ctl register is importand when the athlon processor comes back from acpi-c2 mode. in c2 he is disconnected from the system bus and the internal clock is clocked down. in some cases a false value in this register could prevent the athlon processor to come back from c2 -> lockup of the machine or something like it ... (bug 11 of the athlon processor revision guide) daniel # Daniel Nofftz .......................... # # Sysadmin CIP-Pool Informatik ........... # # University of Trier(Germany), Room V 103 # The resonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. It follows that all progress depends on the unresaonable man. George Bernard Shaw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/