Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16T11:51:07Z

richard.brunner@amd.com wrote:
> My concern is trying to prevent
> the flood of emails where someone thinks they built
> a "standard" kernel only to discover that they forgot
> to select the various suboptions
> and it doesn't work on their processor. I'd like
> to simplfy what the majority of folks need to do
> to get a broadly working kernel.

There's a similar situation with workarounds for buggy IDE chipsets,
CMD640 and RZ1000

-- Jamie