Re: install/47224

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The following reply was made to PR install/47224; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: bonhagjeffrey%gmail.com@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/47224
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:03:00 +0000

 On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 05:45:05PM +0000, Imre Vadasz wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR install/47224; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Imre Vadasz <imre%vdsz.com@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/47224
 > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:38:14 +0100
 > 
 >  Sorry for the confusion, disabling ohci doesn't make any difference.
 >  Since my 6715s sometimes crashes on bootup I mistakenly attributed
 >  that problem to ohci. Since that problem still occurs for me it is
 >  probably not caused by ohci, for now I assume that my bootup problem
 >  is specific to the 6715s (and thus doesn't concern this bug).
 >  Again sorry for that confusion.
 >  
 >  The C1E patch should fix NetBSD on AMD K8 notebook cpus, when C1E
 >  cannot be disabled in the BIOS.
 >  Disabling PowerNow! in the BIOS shouldn't be necessary, since
 >  that will probably also disable frequency scaling.
 >  
 
 Happy to report that even with PowerNow! enabled, the kernel boots beautifully
 thanks to your patch.  Thanks again for working through the problem with me.
 
 Jeff