Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:14:18 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch |
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Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote: > > Nakajima, Jun wrote: > > Oh, I thought you already closed this issue and you were discussing a > > different thing. > > > > I agree. They kernel should fix up userspace for this CPU errata. > > Our question is whether kernels configured specifically for non-AMD > (e.g. Winchip or Elan kernels) must have the AMD fixup code (it is a > few hundred bytes), refuse to boot on AMD, ignore the problem, or work > but not fix up userspace.
Refusing to boot would be best I think. Fixing it up anyway would be OK too.
Ignoring the problem in kernel and/or userspace could be viewed as a response to pilot error but as always it would be nice if, given a choice, we can help the pilot. - 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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