Re: [cooker-amd64] Dual Opteron hangs in openoffice

[Tru Huynh]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:12:57PM +1300, Martin Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
Hi,

> I have found the solution though, it seems that the Tyan BIOS doen't 
> implement errata 94 for the opteron b3 revision.
> 
...

What bios version are you using? Just wondering if we are not
going to step into that pb soon :(
> Suggested Workaround 
> BIOS should disable IC sequential prefetch by setting 
> IC_CFG.DIS_SEQ_PREFETCH (bit 11 of MSR C001_1021)."
> 
...
> Anyway, setting bit 11 of msr c0011021 fixes it.
> 
> If anybody wants to know how to do this, let me know, I don't think I 
> should post it though :)

Could you post it anyway? 

Regards,

Tru

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