Re: [Fdutils] DMA cache consistency bug introduced in 2.6.28

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:27:56AM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> disable_hlt/enable_hlt was only needed to work around a bug on TM4000
> >> (Texas Instrument) Laptops which were popular around 1994 / 1995.
> > 
> > I don't think we can fully drop support for these systems.
> > 
> > Did they have an unique PCI ID or something else that could be tested
> > for?
> 
> Floppy controllers are not PCI devices and thus have no PCI id
> unfortunately... :-(

Yes, but it's enough to identify any component in the system.

-Andi
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