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SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.17-pre5


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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