Messages in this thread | | | From | Terence Ripperda <> | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 15:31:32 -0500 | From | <> | Subject | Re: pat support in the kernel |
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Thanks Mikael,
I was unaware of the errata, I'll check into that.
Terence
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:30:35PM +0200, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote: > Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>, <tripperda@nvidia.com> writes: > > Hello all, > > > > I've discussed adding Page Attribute Table (PAT) support to the kernel w/ a few developers offline. They were very supportive and suggested I bring the discussion to lkml so others could get involved. > > Not that I disagre with utilising the PAT, but I don't see anything in this code to > deal with the widespread PAT indexing erratum in Intel's processors. I don't have > the errata sheets here, but it definitely affected the PIIIs and I think also some P4s. > (Large pages ignoring PAT index bit 2, or something like that.) > > /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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