Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch

Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01T02:51:47Z

Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> Oh, I thought you already closed this issue and you were discussing a
> different thing.
>
> I agree. They kernel should fix up userspace for this CPU errata.

Our question is whether kernels configured specifically for non-AMD
(e.g. Winchip or Elan kernels) must have the AMD fixup code (it is a
few hundred bytes), refuse to boot on AMD, ignore the problem, or work
but not fix up userspace.

-- Jamie