Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:07:08 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre5 |
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > - Pentium IV Hyperthreading support (Alan Cox) > > Actually that one is various Intel people not me 8) > > Wouldn't it be better to see such things proven right in 2.5 first ? > > Random things like this still appearing in 2.4 that haven't shown > up in 2.5 yet is a little disturbing. Ok its small, and there'll be > more 2.4pre's to get it right if anything is wrong with it, but > the whole forward-porting features thing just seems so... backwards.
The patch does not touch "normal" x86 code: We're just using a new feature of P4.
If any user reports problems with "hyperthreading" we can disable it by default...
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