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

[Jeff Garzik]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The main reason I'm really against this is that currently the P4 kernels work
> fine on Athlon. Just when is_prefetch is not integrated in them there will 
> be an mysterious oops once every three months in the kernel in prefetch
> on Athlon.


Booting a P4 kernel _without_ CONFIG_X86_GENERIC on an Athlon would be a 
user bug.

	Jeff



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