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Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 10:19:11 +0200
From: Claas Langbehn <claas@rootdir.de>
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To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
CC: Christian Volkmann <haveaniceday@cv-sv.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Via C3/C7: other flags possible ?
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Simon Arlott schrieb:
> On 19/05/07 23:36, Christian Volkmann wrote:
>> Christian Volkmann wrote:
>>> Claas asked for the NX flag for the Via C3 (?) processors
>>> in another thread.
>
> If you read the other thread properly you'd see that the BIOS has an 
> option to enable or disable it... when enabled it shows up.

Right, but my bios disables this after each boot-time :(
Therefore it would be great if the kernel would not care
about the BIOS and enable it anyway.

This seems to be a severe bug in the BIOS, but VIA does not
deliver a new BIOS since months. :(

>
> I can't reboot that box just to test cx8 detection (which is missing).
>
It works here.


claas
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