Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Eric Poulsen eric@zyxod.com [060510 06:13]:
Note that the "fix" is a new BIOS, which is useless to potential LB users. Also, the ML (my board) is not on there, but it has the EXACT same symptoms.
Does the bios update fix the problem completely? Maybe they do some smart pci configuration thing or they load a microcode update?
Some people say that it works for them, other people say it's useless.
Upon further reading, there might be two distinct problems: DMA bugs in 8235/8237 and/or Linux CPU scaling (longhaul).
If its pci configuration we might compare the pci config space with the old and the new factory bios to find out the fix.
Only if the bios actually works, and there isn't any reason to believe it does. Additionally, there isn't a "fix" bios for my board. Best I can do is try the M bios and hope that it works for the ML boards.
Stefan