AMD vs Intel [Was:Re:OT: PIII vs Celeron]

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:15:32AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | Intel has been horrible lately at making proper BIOS code.  THey have a
> | number of boards where they after over a year of people complaining,
> | they still incorrectly configure the MTRR.  Other board makers using the
> | intel reference code took less than 24 hours to fix it when notified by
> | users.
> 
> Is this issue the one addressed in this thread?
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/1/231

That looks like the one.

Other non intel boards (gigabyte had some for example) were affected
too.

It was working, then a bios update screwed it up (and vista x64 is
affected just as badly).

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Len Sorensen
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