Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 May 2001 01:00:22 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Athlon possible fixes |
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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:51:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
prefetch is virtually addresses. An application would need access to /dev/mem or similar. So the only folks I think it might actually bite are the Xserver people.
depends, maybe it depends on what part of the northbridge it traverses, so it may only affect RAM and not PCI/AGP memory
it should be possible to write a test program that uses /dev/mem to test for this is someone has a buggy MB (or wants to send me one, I'll gladly do it -- my MBs work perfect it seems)
--cw
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