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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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