Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:10:43 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: patch disabling use of PSE on Atom CPUs with a certain erratum |
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On 10/07/2010 07:52 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 07.10.10 at 16:08, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> On 10/07/2010 07:01 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> >>>> Those Atoms don't have 64-bit support. >>> >>> That's different from what I found looking around on the web. >>> >> >> Do tell... > > E.g. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors > > in particular the Atom 230 and Atom 330 (which to my reading match > the spec updates for the 200 and 300 series, which in turn exhibit > the erratum in question). >
You're right... I misremembered. The question is what to do at this point, since we're already in trouble. A possible failure on startup seems better than a state in which we could get data corruption at almost any time.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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