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

Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12T18:00:04Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The main reason I'm really against this is that currently the P4 kernels work
> fine on Athlon. Just when is_prefetch is not integrated in them there will
> be an mysterious oops once every three months in the kernel in prefetch
> on Athlon.

Booting a P4 kernel _without_ CONFIG_X86_GENERIC on an Athlon would be a
user bug.

Jeff