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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: Athlon Optimization Problem
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mark Hahn wrote:

> > > Really?  VIA's own stuff doesn't touch 0x95?  Hmm.  Well is there ever a
> > > case where touching 0x95 solved ANYTHING?
> > > 
> > > What do you think?  Should I change the patch to not touch 0x95?
> > 
> > If this is the code I recall, we beat this to death ages ago. Some people
> > can't run without the fix, period, because user code will crash the
> > system. I have two like that, and while I could run the kernel as an i686
> > kernel, I can't protect the user code that way.
> 
> you have two kt266 boxes that crash without the fix to 0x95,
> or are you talking about kt133/kx/etc and their 0x55 fix?

You are so correct, I remembered the byte incorrectly, 0x55 is the one
needed. It was NOT the code I (almost) recall. 

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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