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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: c/s 19576 vs. AMD systems
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:49:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C61DEF62.9B70%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F847A2.76EA.0078.0@novell.com>

On 29/04/2009 11:27, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

>> What do you suggest? Make the clip Intel-specific? We've only seen problems
>> with (a very few) Intel boxes, so handling AMD at all may be quite
>> unnecessary.
> 
> No - if BIOSes are broken, they can as well be an AMD systems. I'd rather
> take TOM2 and the mentioned SYS_CFG bit into account in that code (not
> the least because modern Linux also does so in its MTRR handling code).

I will consider fixes for theoretical BIOS problems in 3.5. I'm only putting
the test at all in 3.3/3.4 because we have actually seen problems on Intel
systems, and I will restrict the test to that scope.

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29  8:53 c/s 19576 vs. AMD systems Jan Beulich
2009-04-29  9:43 ` Keir Fraser
2009-04-29 10:27   ` Jan Beulich
2009-04-29 10:49     ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2009-04-29 17:23 ` Frank Arnold
2009-04-30  6:58   ` Jan Beulich
2009-04-30  6:59     ` Keir Fraser

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