Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: test11-pre5, Athlon, and Machine Check Architecture | Date | 15 Nov 2000 13:34:20 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011152107420.2791-100000@neo.local> By author: davej@suse.de In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > However, since at least AMD Athlon actually advertises MCA, I would > > like to verify that the code works on these processors before > > submitting it to Linus. > > The Athlon MCA is basically the same architecture-wise as Pentium Pro/II > But there are some differences.. Until AMD make document 21656 (BIOS > writers guide) public (or even a subset of it), we'll not be able to take > advantage of these extra features. > > I'd suggest that until this happens, we leave bluesmoke.c Intel only. >
That's completely the wrong way to look at it. AMD are certainly free to add features, what they aren't free to do is making code that expects the documented behaviour fail -- and if so, it's their bug. I have so far gotten no indication that that is the case; the only thing I have gotten so far is a positive report that it at least doesn't do the wrong thing in the no-#MF case.
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