Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:50:50 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: richard.brunner@amd.com
Cc: davidsen@tmr.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, zwane@linuxpower.ca,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
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richard.brunner@amd.com wrote:
> My concern is trying to prevent 
> the flood of emails where someone thinks they built 
> a "standard" kernel only to  discover that they forgot 
> to select the various suboptions
> and it doesn't work on their processor. I'd like
> to simplfy what the majority of folks need to do
> to get a broadly working kernel.

There's a similar situation with workarounds for buggy IDE chipsets,
CMD640 and RZ1000

-- Jamie

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