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  • Page 1

    AM D Athlon™ Pr oc essor Model 4 R evision Guide Publication # 23614 Rev: K Issue Date: October 2003 Preliminary Information[...]

  • Page 2

    Preliminary Information T rademarks AMD, the AMD Arr ow lo go, AMD Athlon, AMD Dur on, and combinations thereof , AMD-751, and AMD-756 ar e tr ademarks of Ad v anced Micro De vices, Inc. Other product names us ed in this publication are for id entification purposes onl y and ma y be tr ademarks of their r espectiv e companies. © 200 1–2003 Advan[...]

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    3 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information Revision History Date Rev Description October 2003 K Revised erratum #2 4. June 2003 J Added erratum #24. December 2002 I Added errata #2 1–23. July 2002 H Added erratum #20. March 2002 G Added erratum #1 7 . April 200 1 F Removed OPN information.[...]

  • Page 4

    4 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 R evision Guide The pur pose of the AMD Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide is to communicate update d product info rmation on the AMD Athlon™ pr ocessor model 4 to designers of computer systems and softw ar[...]

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    5 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 1 Pro du ct Er ra ta T his section documents AMD Athlon pr ocessor model 4 pr oduct errata. T he errata ar e divided into categories to assist r efe r encing particular err ata. A unique trac king n umber f or eac h err atum has been assigned within[...]

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    6 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 5 MCA Bus Unit Control Register MSR 408H Returns I ncorrect In formation Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. System r eads to MSR 408h, MC A Bus Unit Contr ol Register MC2_CTL, should r eturn corr ect info rmation—the [...]

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    7 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 10 Resistance Value of the ZN and ZP Pins Products Affected. A4, A5 Normal Specified Operation. The ZN and ZP pins ar e specified such that the AMD system bus output dri ve rs autocompensat e to whate ver r esistance value is applied b etween ZN and[...]

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    8 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 11 PLL Overshoot on Wake-Up from Disconnect Causes Auto -Compensation Circuit to Fail Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. T he AMD Athlon processor model 4 PLL should return to the normal oper ating fr equenc y when r ec[...]

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    9 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 13 Instruction Execution Deadlock Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7 Normal Specified Operation. Legitimate instruction sequences shou ld execute as specified. Non-conformance. Under r ar e and unlik ely co nditions, the load-stor e unit, instruction[...]

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    10 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 14 Processors with Half-Frequency Multipliers May Hang Upon Wake-up from Disconnect Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. The pr ocessor should r econnect to the system bus upon w ake-up after a disconnect while in the C2[...]

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    11 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 15 Processor Does Not Support Re liable Microcode Patch Mechanism Products Affected. A9 Normal Specified Operation. The pr ocessor should function proper l y after a microcode patch is loaded. Non-conformance. The pr ocessor has the pat ch RAM BIST[...]

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    12 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 16 INVLPG Instruction Does Not Flush Entire Four -Megabyte Page Properly with Certain Linear Addresses Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. After executing an INVLPG instruction the TLB should no t contain an y tr anslat[...]

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    13 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 17 Code Modifications that Coincide with Level 2 Instruct ion TLB Translations May Escape Detection Resulting in Stale Code Execution Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. Self-modifying code sequences sho uld be corr ec[...]

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    14 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 20 A Speculative SMC Store F ollowed by an Actual SMC Store May Cause One-Time Stale Execution Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. Self-modifying code sequ ences should be corr ectl y detected and handled in a manner co[...]

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    15 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 21 Real Mode RDPMC with Illegal ECX May Cause Unpre dictable Operation Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. Illegal v alues of ECX (that is, ECX>3) f or the RDPMC (Read P erformance Monitor Counter) instruction cause[...]

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    16 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 22 Using Task Gates With Breakpoint s Enabled May Caus e Unexpected Faults Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. T ask gates should corr ectly use the TSS selector ou t of the task gate for C A LL and JMP instructions. No[...]

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    17 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 23 Single Step Across I/O SMI Skips One Debug Trap Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. When single stepping (with EFLA GS.TF) ac ross an IN or OUT instruction that detects an SMI, the processor corr ectly defer s takin[...]

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    18 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 24 Software Prefetches May Report A Page Fault Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7, A9 Normal Specified Operation. Softw ar e pr efetc hes should not r eport page faults if they encounter them. Non-conformance. Softwar e prefet ch instructions ar e de[...]

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    19 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information Because the actual err ata is infr equent, it does not pr oduce an e xcessiv e n umber of page faults that affect system performance. Ther ef ore a page fault fr om a pr efetch instruction for an addr ess within an "accessible" page does [...]

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    20 AM D Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide 236 1 4K — October 2003 Preliminary Information 2 R evision Determination T able 2 sho ws the AMD Athlon pr ocessor model 4 identifica tion number r eturned by the CPUID instruction f or each r e vision of the processor . T able 2. CPU I D V alues for the Revisions of the AM D Athlon™ Processor[...]

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    21 236 1 4K — October 2003 AM D Athlon™ Pr ocessor Model 4 Revision Guide Preliminary Information 3 T echnical and Documentation Support The f ollo wing docume nts pr ovide additional inf ormation regar ding the operation of the AMD Athlon processor model 4. Please refer to the data sheets listed in this section for pr oduct marking info rmatio[...]