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
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