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    [PATCH] A new Athlon 'bug'. · 7d7f493a
    Dave Jones authored
    Very recent Athlons (Model 8 stepping 1 and above) (XPs/MPs and mobiles)
    have an interesting problem.  Certain bits in the CLK_CTL register need
    to be programmed differently to those in earlier models. The problem arises
    when people plug these new CPUs into boards running BIOSes that are unaware
    of this fact.
    
    The fix is to reprogram CLK_CTL to 200xxxxx instead of 0x600xxxxx as it was
    in previous models. The AMD folks have found that this improves stability.
    
    The patch below does this reprogramming if an affected model/bios is
    detected.
    
    I'm interested if someone with an affected model could run some
    benchmarks before and after to also see if this affects performance.
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