Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch]K6-2/K-III compile option | Date | Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:07:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > K6-II or later. If you look at my code I actualyl catch the prefetch > > fault and patch it in the Athlon code so you can boot the Athlon kernel on > > a K6. > > So now we are doing this (this meaning patching instructions when the kernel > is loaded), shouldn't we do it for KNI support too ?
I'm just nopping an instruction not doing clever patching. The idea is the kernel still boots on any MMX box, not that it switches to the optimal code
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