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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:09:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Calin A. Culianu" <calin@ajvar.org>
To: Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>
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Subject: Re: VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug (AKA Linux Kernel with Athlon
 optimizations bug)
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So does this mean we will be seeing a patch that clears bits 6,7, and 8 in
register 55 on the northbridge soon?

-Calin

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Troels Walsted Hansen wrote:

> 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
> 8
>
>

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