Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:00:00 +0100

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:51:42AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >- Fix off-by-one error in bluesmoke (Dave Jones)
> NO NO NO! This is the same broken patch that somehow got into
> 2.2.21pre4 as well.

Agreed, it should get backed out as it was in 2.2.21rc1

> The patch changes the code to write to the
> IA32_MC0_CTL MSR, which is a big no-no. Intel's IA32 Vol3 manual
> (#245472-03) sections 13.3.2.1 and 13.5 make that point quite clear.

Without the change however, Athlons won't report Icache errors.
Possibly we need a seperate init path for Athlon/Intel

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