Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

[Timothy Miller]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

> If the fixup were not in place, would it be useful to emit a warning
> like "you have booted a non-Athlon kernel on an Athlon process, user
> programs may get unexpected page faults." That's in init code, hopefully
> there is no critical size issue there, I assume, other than how large a
> kernel can be booted by the boot loader.

How many bytes would that code require?

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