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Message-ID: <20071126015757.GA16807@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:57:57 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/27] x86: debugctlmsr kconfig
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> This adds the (internal) Kconfig macro CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR,
> to be defined when configuring to support only hardware that
> definitely supports MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR with the BTF flag.
>
> The Intel documentation says "P6 family" and later processors all have it.
> I think the Kconfig dependencies are right to have it set for those and
> unset for others (i.e., when 586 and earlier are supported).
What about the non-Intel vendors ?
Was this msr present on AMD K6 ? Geode? Winchip? VIA C3 ?
If not, then this patch isn't complete.
Dave
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