Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261798AbTILSAE (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:00:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261799AbTILSAE (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:00:04 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:49559 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261798AbTILR76 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:59:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3F62098F.9030300@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:59:43 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , akpm@osdl.org, richard.brunner@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata References: <99F2150714F93F448942F9A9F112634C0638B196@txexmtae.amd.com> <20030911012708.GD3134@wotan.suse.de> <20030910184414.7850be57.akpm@osdl.org> <20030911014716.GG3134@wotan.suse.de> <3F60837D.7000209@pobox.com> <20030911162634.64438c7d.ak@suse.de> <3F6087FC.7090508@pobox.com> <20030912195606.24e73086.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030912195606.24e73086.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 19 Andi Kleen wrote: > The main reason I'm really against this is that currently the P4 kernels work > fine on Athlon. Just when is_prefetch is not integrated in them there will > be an mysterious oops once every three months in the kernel in prefetch > on Athlon. Booting a P4 kernel _without_ CONFIG_X86_GENERIC on an Athlon would be a user bug. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/