From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261844AbTILSlX (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:41:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261845AbTILSlW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:41:22 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:64920 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261844AbTILSkL (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:40:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3F6212FD.5000702@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:39:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Adrian Bunk , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, richard.brunner@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata References: <99F2150714F93F448942F9A9F112634C0638B196@txexmtae.amd.com> <20030911012708.GD3134@wotan.suse.de> <20030910184414.7850be57.akpm@osdl.org> <20030911014716.GG3134@wotan.suse.de> <3F60837D.7000209@pobox.com> <20030911162634.64438c7d.ak@suse.de> <3F6087FC.7090508@pobox.com> <20030912195606.24e73086.ak@suse.de> <3F62098F.9030300@pobox.com> <20030912182216.GK27368@fs.tum.de> <20030912202851.3529e7e7.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030912202851.3529e7e7.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > That's obsolete and could be removed. All 3dnow! code is dynamically patched depending on the CPUID. Ug. Why compile in 3dnow code when you don't need it? There is a sizeable number of processors without 3dnow... Jeff