linux-kernel - Re: Via C3/C7: other flags possible ?

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Message-ID: <4650047F.4000804@rootdir.de>
Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 10:19:11 +0200
From:	Claas Langbehn <claas@...tdir.de>
To:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
CC:	Christian Volkmann <haveaniceday@...sv.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Via C3/C7: other flags possible ?

Simon Arlott schrieb:
> On 19/05/07 23:36, Christian Volkmann wrote:
>> Christian Volkmann wrote:
>>> Claas asked for the NX flag for the Via C3 (?) processors
>>> in another thread.
>
> If you read the other thread properly you'd see that the BIOS has an 
> option to enable or disable it... when enabled it shows up.

Right, but my bios disables this after each boot-time :(
Therefore it would be great if the kernel would not care
about the BIOS and enable it anyway.

This seems to be a severe bug in the BIOS, but VIA does not
deliver a new BIOS since months. :(

>
> I can't reboot that box just to test cx8 detection (which is missing).
>
It works here.



claas
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