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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:42:59 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking.
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Hi!

> In the wake of the recent fallout of "are Athlon XP's SMP capable or not",
> the following patch adds some sanity checking to the SMP boot up code.
> This code is based upon information from the folks at AMD. There are
> no exceptions to these rules.

Are there public errata documents which say what's wrong with older
athlons? Without that info I think this patch is bad idea.
								Pavel
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