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Message-Id: <200702020940.21071.juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:40:20 +0100
From:	Juergen Beisert <juergen127@...uzholzen.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, takada <takada@....nifty.com>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@....com>
Subject: Re: Please revert "fix typo in geode_configre()@cyrix.c"

On Friday 02 February 2007 07:29, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Since there is AFAIK no actually observed problem fixed by this, it
> should be safe to simply revert the patch for 2.6.20.

The most important fix was:

Index: linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
+++ linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ static void __cpuinit geode_configure(vo
 	ccr4 = getCx86(CX86_CCR4);
 	ccr4 |= 0x38;		/* FPU fast, DTE cache, Mem bypass */

+	setCx86(CX86_CCR4, ccr4);
 	setCx86(CX86_CCR3, ccr3);

 	set_cx86_memwb();

to write back the modified register content. But yes, it works also without 
this fix (but faster with it).

Juergen
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