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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:54:31 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>, "dmarkh@....rr.com" <dmarkh@....rr.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "fdutils@...tils.linux.lu" <fdutils@...tils.linux.lu>, "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, morgan@...sics.ucla.edu Subject: Re: [Fdutils] DMA cache consistency bug introduced in 2.6.28 On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:27:56AM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> disable_hlt/enable_hlt was only needed to work around a bug on TM4000 > >> (Texas Instrument) Laptops which were popular around 1994 / 1995. > > > > I don't think we can fully drop support for these systems. > > > > Did they have an unique PCI ID or something else that could be tested > > for? > > Floppy controllers are not PCI devices and thus have no PCI id > unfortunately... :-( Yes, but it's enough to identify any component in the system. -Andi -- ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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