From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 09:00:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 09:00:32 -0400 Received: from f00f.stub.clear.net.nz ([203.167.224.51]:57104 "HELO metastasis.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 09:00:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 01:00:22 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Athlon possible fixes Message-ID: <20010507010022.A32198@metastasis.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <20010506142346.C31269@metastasis.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:51:59PM +0100 X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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