Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261879AbTJACvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:51:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261881AbTJACvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:51:47 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:25734 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261879AbTJACvq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:51:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 03:51:28 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: "Nakajima, Jun" Cc: Andrew Morton , davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, richard.brunner@amd.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch Message-ID: <20031001025128.GD32209@mail.shareable.org> References: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AFCE@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AFCE@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nakajima, Jun wrote: > Oh, I thought you already closed this issue and you were discussing a > different thing. > > I agree. They kernel should fix up userspace for this CPU errata. Our question is whether kernels configured specifically for non-AMD (e.g. Winchip or Elan kernels) must have the AMD fixup code (it is a few hundred bytes), refuse to boot on AMD, ignore the problem, or work but not fix up userspace. -- Jamie - 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/