From: Andreas Boman <aboman@nerdfest.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking.
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:59:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011116195958.2676e3dd.aboman@nerdfest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111170133290.32578-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <3BF5B05F.9F727DD8@resilience.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111170133290.32578-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:39:21 +0100 (CET)
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
>
> > > Burning out a fuse to make the switch from MP->XP may affect more
> > > than just the cpuid capabilities. The fact is _we don't know_
> > Right, so why assume it doesn't work?
>
> Because there are cases where it. does. not. work.
>
Well the case you cited in your first mail turned out to be a GPM glitch,
solved by plugging in a mouse. Nothing to do with SMP what so ever. I have
yet to hear of any K7 cpu(s) that will _not_ work in SMP mode, care to
share a few real cases where that is the case? (ie all other factors ruled
out).
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-17 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-16 21:30 [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking Dave Jones
2001-11-16 19:42 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-11-16 21:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-11-16 21:46 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-16 21:44 ` Dan Hollis
2001-11-16 22:02 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-16 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-16 21:59 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-16 22:11 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-16 22:37 ` Jeff Golds
2001-11-16 23:04 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17 0:33 ` Jeff Golds
2001-11-17 0:39 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17 0:59 ` Andreas Boman [this message]
2001-11-17 1:54 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17 4:11 ` Nathan Walp
2001-11-17 4:59 ` Mark Orr
2001-11-16 23:40 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-16 23:47 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17 1:05 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-17 1:09 ` Dan Hollis
2001-11-17 1:11 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17 1:10 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-21 0:42 ` Pavel Machek
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