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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Llu, 2003-09-15 at 20:34, John Bradford wrote:
> Yes, you're right, from a stability point of view I was being a bit
> impractical.  Any idea how many developers are actually regularly
> testing code on 386s these days, by the way?

I test 486 still but not 386. Even finding embedded 386 stuff that isnt
obsolete is hard nowdays (6117 etc).