Re: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking.

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 19:42:59 EST

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Hi!

> In the wake of the recent fallout of "are Athlon XP's SMP capable or not",
> the following patch adds some sanity checking to the SMP boot up code.
> This code is based upon information from the folks at AMD. There are
> no exceptions to these rules.

Are there public errata documents which say what's wrong with older
athlons? Without that info I think this patch is bad idea.
Pavel

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