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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > >  > Personally, I would just say that we should disable prefetch on such
 > >  > clearly broken hardware, but since it's Alans favourite machine (some
 > >  > early AMD Athlon if I remember correctly), I think Alan will disagree ;)
 > > I think I now understand why you silently dropped the 'disable broken hw
 > > prefetch on early stepping P4' patch I sent you. 8-)
 > 
 > No, I don't think either I (nor Alan) has any early stepping P4's.
 > Me dropping patches is just normal ;)

Hmm, it was in the patch including Patricks cpu/ reorganisation,
so it seems you applied it, and then hacked it out 8-)

*shines spotlight on Linus*

Oh well, I'll retransmit sometime. I've been really lax about pushing
stuff to you of late anyway, so a big push when I come back from
my vacation would be a good thing.

        Dave

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
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