Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:57:57 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/27] x86: debugctlmsr kconfig
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > 
 > This adds the (internal) Kconfig macro CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR,
 > to be defined when configuring to support only hardware that
 > definitely supports MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR with the BTF flag.
 > 
 > The Intel documentation says "P6 family" and later processors all have it.
 > I think the Kconfig dependencies are right to have it set for those and
 > unset for others (i.e., when 586 and earlier are supported).

What about the non-Intel vendors ?
Was this msr present on AMD K6 ? Geode? Winchip? VIA C3 ?
If not, then this patch isn't complete. 

	Dave

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