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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:53:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Timothy Miller wrote:

> 
> 
> 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?

No resident bytes, as noted it's in init and will be released at the end
of boot.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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