linux-kernel - Re: [X86] Add recent Centaur CPUs to PAT whitelist

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Message-ID: <20080522140753.GB20613@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 10:07:53 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [X86] Add recent Centaur CPUs to PAT whitelist

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:56:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > 
 > > From conversation with Centaur engineers, both the newer generations
 > > of the VIA C7, and their future CPUs support PAT, with no known errata.
 > > 
 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > > 
 > 
 > Question: are there any VIA CPUs that display the PAT CPUID flag that 
 > aren't covered by the above?

No.  They only added PAT support with the current Esther (C7) generation iirc.

	Dave

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