Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
From: Timothy Miller
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 10:26:03 EST
Bill Davidsen wrote:
If the fixup were not in place, would it be useful to emit a warning
like "you have booted a non-Athlon kernel on an Athlon process, user
programs may get unexpected page faults." That's in init code, hopefully
there is no critical size issue there, I assume, other than how large a
kernel can be booted by the boot loader.
How many bytes would that code require?
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