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

John Bradford
2003-09-15T14:07:28Z

> > In the model I'm proposing, the 386 kernel would be missing the Athlon
> > workarounds.
>
> This is unworkable unless you also have all the existing models where
> you have fixes for later processors too.

I'm pretty sure we're talking about two different things - I don't
understand what you mean about all the exisiting models. Are you
saying that with Adrian's patch we still can't simply include this
workaround [1] if and only if the user has included Athlon support,
rather than CPU<=Athlon?

[1] Obviously the point isn't just applicable to this work around, but
this is a new one going in.

John.