From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)
Cc: zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz (Zwane Mwaikambo),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] moving F0 0F bug check to bugs.h
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:07:56 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E165TY4-0003Ui-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111181512230.29315-100000@Appserv.suse.de> from "Dave Jones" at Nov 18, 2001 03:18:18 PM
> > We only check for the bug once so we might as well move it to check
> > the boot cpu only in bugs.h.
>
> Whilst not an ideal solution, some people do silly things like
> putting a P150 and a P166 clocked to 150 into SMP boxes.
> It could be possible for 1 CPU to have the bug whilst another doesn't.
Perhaps we should add the bugs as bit flags to the capability masks - but
inverted (ie "no foof bug" etc) that way they'll come out with the rest of
the SMP bug handling logic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-18 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-18 13:51 Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-11-18 14:18 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-18 14:37 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-11-18 14:50 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-18 15:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-11-18 15:30 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-18 15:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-11-18 18:14 ` George Greer
2001-11-19 1:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
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