Re: PATCH: enable PAT at Pentium M 1.7 GHz

[CIJOML]

H. Peter Anvin writes: 

> CIJOML wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > Sending oneliner enabling PAT at my Pentium M 1.7 GHz CPU. It simply 
> > works.
>
> That's not really the right way to do that.  Unfortunately the likely 
> failure scenario is "data corruption after a month of uptime."  Thus, we 
> really need someone to review the relevant errata; I believe Venki is 
> planning to do so. 
>
> 	-hpa

Well the truth is, that I use this little tweak from 2.6.26-rc and first cpu 
having PAT was P3 XEON. And because Intel has backward compatibility, it is 
safe to use it.
I don't have any problem with loosing data or any suspend/resume problems 
with this. 

Reference:
http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/032124656X/ch32 

Best regards 

Michal
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