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 18:59:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:59:49 -0400 Received: from puma.inf.ufrgs.br ([143.54.11.5]:519 "EHLO inf.ufrgs.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:59:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:00:28 -0300 (EST) From: Roberto Jung Drebes To: Simen Thoresen cc: goemon@anime.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. In-Reply-To: <200109192251110218.11CA7E22@scispor.dolphinics.no> 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 On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Simen Thoresen wrote: > Why? by default it is '09' on my system, it does not experience any > oops-problems, and the spec still reads it to be '00' and 'dont > program'. > > I'm now applying the patch and rebuilding the kernel to permanently zero it. The patch is not supposed to set it to 0, only to clear bit 7, so if your system has it as 0x09, the patch has no effect, since bit 7 is already cleared. -- Roberto Jung Drebes Porto Alegre, RS - Brasil http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~drebes/