Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> And again, the kernel DOES see that my CPU features PAT, it just refuses
> to use it.

Umm, and this is different how from clearing the PSE bit when we decide 
not to use large-page support? 

See arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c: parse_mem() for an example.

Rene - you have valid points (ie that patches were NAK'ed etc and you 
might have wanted better changelog entries), but trust me, this one is not 
one of them. /proc/cpuinfo and the kernel clearing feature bits is 
_normal_. It's how it has always been.

			Linus
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