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> in HLT, otherwise 3.6 A and more. (sic!) Things like "Data forwarding",
> "Fill on Write Miss", "Write Gathering", "Weak Ordering" etc. are powerful
> options which aren't supported by Pentiums, and you have to enable them

Weak ordering if its doing write re-ordering will need to go on/off as you
access stuff like WD80x3 ethernet cards. The other stuff ought to be ok on
the whole. Try it and see - you can access 22h/23h from a root program with
ioperm().

Alan



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