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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:52:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] AMD Elan patch
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Sounds reasonably. I think we should stay with the configuration option at
the moment.

Robert
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