From: "Calin A. Culianu" <calin@ajvar.org>
To: Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
Cc: Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][highly-experimental] via-mwq (Was: Re: VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug...)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:45:26 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112071344331.8001-100000@rtlab.med.cornell.edu> (raw)
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I wrote a patch as well.. and tested it.. It works fine. I would
recommend not writing an entirely new function. It's a bit more efficient
just to overload the athlon bug stomper function and register it for a few
extra chipsets.
I will post my patch tha tbasically works just like your patch but has a
smaller footprint.. :)
-Calin
On Fri, 7
Dec 2001, Martin Eriksson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Calin A. Culianu" <calin@ajvar.org>
> To: "Petri Kaukasoina" <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>
> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:09 PM
> Subject: Re: VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug (AKA Linux Kernel with Athlon
>
> > Here is the webpage:
> >
> > This patch detects the 0305, 3099, 3102, and 3112 (KT133x, KT266x, VT8662,
> > and KLE133) *only*. On these chipsets, it will patch register 55 in the
> > Northbridge, which will supposedly switch off a Memory Write Queue timer.
> > In the KT133A datasheet, register 55 is "reserved". But - yikes! - in the
> > KT266, the documented MWQ register is register 95, not 55. Register 55
> > contains unrelated DDR timing adjustments and could actually be dangerous
> > to program. For this reason, I do not recommend installing this driver on
> > the KT266x chipsets until VIA examines this issue. For now, use WPCREDIT
> > and set bits 5, 6, and 7 to zero in register 95 instead."
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Clearly, we need to modify the via workaround patches to take into account
> > the other via device id's (namely 3099, 3102, and 3112), and for each one
> > change the appropriate register. Either register 55 or in the case of the
> > kt266x, register 95. I am grepping through quirks.c right now and it
> > seems this would be the correct file to modify.. any other suggestions on
> > what file to modify?
>
> I've (hastily) put these changes into "arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c" and had to
> modify "include/linux/pci_ids.h" too.
>
> The patch is included, but a warning: I have no VIA based computer that I
> can test this on myself...
>
> _____________________________________________________
> | Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
> | MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science
> | Umeå University, Sweden
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-07 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-05 19:21 VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug (AKA Linux Kernel with Athlon optimizations bug) Troels Walsted Hansen
2001-12-05 21:09 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-12-06 0:41 ` VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug (AKA Linux Kernel with Athlon Alan Cox
2001-12-06 8:45 ` Petri Kaukasoina
2001-12-06 22:09 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-12-07 10:28 ` [PATCH][highly-experimental] via-mwq (Was: Re: VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug...) Martin Eriksson
2001-12-07 12:46 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-07 18:45 ` Calin A. Culianu [this message]
2001-12-06 21:35 ` VIA acknowledges North Bridge bug (AKA Linux Kernel with Athlon Calin A. Culianu
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