From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:19:56 -0400 Received: from [24.254.60.19] ([24.254.60.19]:27086 "EHLO femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:19:54 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: tegeran@home.com To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:19:06 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <20010919154701.A7381@stud.ntnu.no> <20010919165503.A16359@gondor.com> <9oafeu$1o0$1@penguin.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <9oafeu$1o0$1@penguin.transmeta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091917190600.00628@c779218-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 September 2001 09:00 am, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <20010919165503.A16359@gondor.com>, > > Right now, for example, I'm leaning towards applying the patch, but > quite frankly I'm still not certain. Getting _some_ kind of > information out of VIA would be really good - even just an ACK from > somebody who is under NDA and can say just "yes, it's safe to clear bit > 7 of reg 0x55". > Is there an way someone could find out what Windows, possibly with VIA's 4-in-1 drivers, do with this bit? And for that matter, what the test program that tests it regardless of kernel optimizations does in Windows, if it can be ported?