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Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 04:12:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: enable PAT support on AMD Duron model 7
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On 08-05-08 04:08, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>> x86: enable PAT support on AMD Duron model 7
>>
>> PAT support seems to work well on AMD Duron model 7. Enable it.
> 
> have you read the errata sheets for this one?
> have you tried various cachability/mtrr combinations (with a new
> enough X)?
> 
> just booting doesn't say much if the feature won't just randomly
> tripple fault later on

No, I haven't, but it's the same thing Yinghai sent to me earlier.
Shouldn't he have? Any indications that it might not work?

Rene.