Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

[Jamie Lokier]

richard.brunner@xxxxxxx wrote:
> My concern is trying to prevent 
> the flood of emails where someone thinks they built 
> a "standard" kernel only to  discover that they forgot 
> to select the various suboptions
> and it doesn't work on their processor. I'd like
> to simplfy what the majority of folks need to do
> to get a broadly working kernel.

There's a similar situation with workarounds for buggy IDE chipsets,
CMD640 and RZ1000

-- Jamie

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