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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:33:49 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
CC: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: PAT: fix ambiguous paranoia check in pat_init()
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Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> The current setup is okay really. The only thing it still wants is a 
> commandline whitelist switch but that needs a somewhat different setup 
> as validate_pat_support() is too early for __setup() or early_param().
> 

Actually, I think it's time to nuke the whitelist.  I don't think it has 
any CPUs on it that have the PAT flag enabled, still.

	-hpa
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