From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:24:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CDBE09.3060000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080304210111.GB31546@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
>> P4 has been coming out as CPU_FAMILY=4 instead of 6: fix MPENTIUM4
>> typo.
>
> thanks Hugh, applied.
>
> Ingo
The patch is correct, obviously; the comment is not: the real comment
should be:
Enable the use of P6 NOPs on Pentium 4
The CPU_FAMILY field is really the minimum CPU family that can boot the
kernel (that's why there is no 5; we don't have any i586 family
dependencies not encoded by CPUID bits.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 19:33 [PATCH] x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486 Hugh Dickins
2008-03-04 21:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-03-04 21:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-10 19:14 ` P6 NOPs again: MPSC? Hugh Dickins
2008-03-10 20:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-10 22:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-11 6:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-11 14:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-11 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-11 13:45 ` Hugh Dickins
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