Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261409AbTIOTep (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:34:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261419AbTIOTep (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:34:45 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:35599 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261409AbTIOTeo (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:34:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:25:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: John Bradford cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata In-Reply-To: <200309151934.h8FJYI84002544@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 21 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, John Bradford wrote: > Yes, you're right, from a stability point of view I was being a bit > impractical. Any idea how many developers are actually regularly > testing code on 386s these days, by the way? Embedded folks, can you tell us? I believe one of the low power CPUs looks like a 386 w/o F.P. but with a few 486 instructions. Clarification? CC list trimmed since this has turned from policy to technical. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/