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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:14:47 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center
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On 08/04/2010 02:12 AM, bifferos wrote:
> 
> I couldn't reproduce this with 2.6.35 (without Peter's change),
> I was trying on VirtualBox.  If the detection code is causing a 
> problem we can just skip it if the CPU has cpuid.
> 
> Incidentally if you need some hardware to test the RDC port on I can
> arrange that.
> 

Incidentally, please do note that there is no concrete benefit to this
"support", since all it does is replicate information in /proc/cpuinfo
that is already available through lspci.

	-hpa
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