From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Athlon possible fixes
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 01:00:22 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010507010022.A32198@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010506142346.C31269@metastasis.f00f.org> <E14wO16-00023N-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14wO16-00023N-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:51:59PM +0100
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:51:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
prefetch is virtually addresses. An application would need access
to /dev/mem or similar. So the only folks I think it might
actually bite are the Xserver people.
depends, maybe it depends on what part of the northbridge it
traverses, so it may only affect RAM and not PCI/AGP memory
it should be possible to write a test program that uses /dev/mem to
test for this is someone has a buggy MB (or wants to send me one,
I'll gladly do it -- my MBs work perfect it seems)
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-06 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-05 7:35 Alan Cox
2001-05-05 16:26 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-05 16:42 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-05-05 22:44 ` Seth Goldberg
2001-05-06 16:44 ` Jussi Laako
2001-05-06 17:41 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2001-05-06 18:16 ` Christian Bornträger
2001-05-06 19:23 ` Marek Pętlicki
2001-05-07 18:54 ` Jussi Laako
2001-05-11 20:09 ` Jussi Laako
2001-05-11 20:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-12 9:51 ` Jussi Laako
2001-05-06 2:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06 12:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-06 13:00 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-05-11 4:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-12 18:31 Ishikawa
2001-05-12 23:02 ` Alan Cox
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