Re: Athlon possible fixes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 6 May 2001 13:51:59 +0100 (BST)

> There really needs to be a hardware fix... this doesn't stop some
> application having it's owne optimised code from breaking on some
> hardware (think games and similation software perhaps).

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.

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