Re: Athlon: Try this (was: Re: Athlon bug stomping #2)
Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:50:45 +0200
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:53:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > to 0x89 and it happilly lives... So maybe some BIOS vendors
> > > used KT133 instead of KT133A BIOS image?
> >
> > Same here ...
>
> One way to test this hypthesis maybe to run dmidecode on the machines and
> see if they report KT133 or KT133A. Its also possible some BIOS code does
> blindly program bit 7 even tho its reserved and should have been kept
> unchanged.
I think it's possible to decide whether a chipset is KT133 or KT133A
based on the hostbridge revision. Mine is KT133 and is rev 03.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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