Messages in this thread | | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] amd athlon cooling on kt266/266a chipset | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:42:26 +0100 |
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On Tuesday, 22. January 2002 23:21, Daniel Nofftz wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Dieter [iso-8859-15] Nützel wrote: > > Maybe it's time for AMD/VIA/SiS/Nvidia, etc. to come up with there code > > for _ALL_ Athlon/Duron chipsets??? > > As we are in trouble with AMD 4MB pages, yet. > > > > Have a look at www.vcool.de > > yes ... maybee ... the problem is , that the disconnect-function is > enabled by the chipset ... and it is a different register in every > different chipset. so it is a little bit difficult to make a solution for > all chipsets.
I know that and my intention was that we _NEED_ documentation to support it on _ALL_ chipsets out there.
AMD should notice how many people using there CPUs and I think they do know it.
So let's make a call.
> by the way ... i know www.vcool.de ... my work is partialy based on this. > but the vcool linux patch/version does not support kt266/kt266a chipset. > (only the kt/kx133 chipset)
I know.
> after some mail exchange with the developer of vcool,
I did that, too. Andreas Jaeger (SuSE) told me that maybe he could help. He got the USB patch information for the AMD Irongate after a few days out of them...
> i decided to wrote a kernelpatch, which supports the kt266/kt266a chipset > too.
Good work.
> (one of my reasosns for this was, that the developer of vcool will not > develop the linux version further) .
Sadly to hear.
> the second thing is, that this patch is a little bit simpler then the > (l)vcool approach ... i think ... :)
I can't compare 'cause I have the AMD Irongate C4...;-)
> ah ... if someone sends me the the needed informations, which registers > (or register-bits) are to be changed on ther chipsets to activate the > disconnect-function, i will add this chipsets to the patch.
I hope we get some info, now.
-Dieter
-- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
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