Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:02:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:02:06 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:8207 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:01:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] AMD Elan patch To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:10:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), robert@schwebel.de (Robert Schwebel), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel List), wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel), jason@mugwump.taiga.com (Jason Sodergren), anders@alarsen.net (Anders Larsen), rkaiser@sysgo.de In-Reply-To: <3C338C57.2080902@zytor.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Jan 02, 2002 02:40:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > That's not the problem, really... the problems is that CPUID identifies > the CPU core, and embedded CPU cores tend to be used and reused many > times -- in fact, AMD are quite good at that. The 400/410 this isnt a problem for. Its discontinued and the 5x0 detect differently (and actually have working serial ports I believe). So its an end of life core - 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/