From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265984AbTIKEDY (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:03:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265990AbTIKEDY (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:03:24 -0400 Received: from h80ad2681.async.vt.edu ([128.173.38.129]:11141 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265984AbTIKEDW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:03:22 -0400 Message-Id: <200309110403.h8B43GSo003956@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: "Nakajima, Jun" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:43:34 PDT." <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AF3A@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D3720017304AF3A@scsmsx402.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-146537118P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:03:16 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_-146537118P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:43:34 PDT, "Nakajima, Jun" said: > For maintenance and testing purposes, I think it's still better to make > it conditional. If the errata are fixed, you might want to kill the > condition depending on the stepping, for example. During the transition > time, you need to support both the steppings until old ones go away > (then remove the workaround). We've still got conditionals for 486 chips. How long a transition till the old ones of *this* chipset go away? --==_Exmh_-146537118P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/X/QDcC3lWbTT17ARAkZmAKCejWF1/xKtxSpHnrfFBO3PSyEohQCg3xTX 3jrTph6CE7E59Bee2bmfzNQ= =pSCs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-146537118P--