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

Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-11T04:03:24Z

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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:43:34 PDT, "Nakajima, Jun" said:

> For maintenance and testing purposes, I think it's still better to make
> it conditional. If the errata are fixed, you might want to kill the
> condition depending on the stepping, for example. During the transition
> time, you need to support both the steppings until old ones go away
> (then remove the workaround).

We've still got conditionals for 486 chips. How long a transition till the old
ones of *this* chipset go away?

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