From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751128Ab2I2USQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:18:16 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52773 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750903Ab2I2USO (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:18:14 -0400 Message-ID: <50675776.10702@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:17:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: Peter Hurley , "zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: mtrr: Constrain WB MTRR to max phys mem prior to cleanup References: <1347039854.6288.8.camel@thor> <504A3FA9.1050502@zytor.com> <504D6490.2060606@oracle.com> <1348853876.2229.22.camel@thor> <5066680E.3090907@zytor.com> <20120929104611.GB14974@khazad-dum.debian.net> <30701c46-a57e-49f2-9273-6f725c8463e0@email.android.com> <20120929201107.GB8329@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20120929201107.GB8329@khazad-dum.debian.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Intel doesn't make it easy to get all processor specification updates at > once so that I could hunt down every processor which acknowledges the > existence of that errata before replying, so I will assume for the moment > that the comment is mostly correct. > I should say: as far as I know the blacklist is there because noone has been willing to bother looking at if it actually matters, given how old the hardware is. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.