Re: [PATCH] x86: enable PAT support on AMD Duron model 7

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 22:09:52 EST


On Thu, 08 May 2008 04:04:05 +0200
Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08-05-08 03:57, Rene Herman wrote:
>
> > Okay, so how's this? Seem to work well for me and makes me happy.
> > Only tested on UP.
>
> With this on top, I'm ecstatic:
>
> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
>
>
> x86: enable PAT support on AMD Duron model 7
>
> PAT support seems to work well on AMD Duron model 7. Enable it.

have you read the errata sheets for this one?
have you tried various cachability/mtrr combinations (with a new
enough X)?

just booting doesn't say much if the feature won't just randomly
tripple fault later on
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