From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:12:55 +0000 Subject: Re: anyone using Itanium B-step support? Message-Id: <16889.26471.787124.55865@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1106862995.18514.108.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> In-Reply-To: <1106862995.18514.108.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:56:36 -0800, James E Wilson said: Jim> However, rather than add more ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC support to Jim> the kernel, I think it makes more sense to obsolete it and Jim> remove it. I agree. I happened to run into the warning just recently myself and came to the same conclusion. We probably still have some B-step Merceds in our lab but IIRC, it was so rare to trigger the erratum that even on those boxes we can live without the workaround just fine. And it's not likely that anyone is using such old prototype hardware for anything mission critical... --david