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Date:      Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:00:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@mindspring.com>, dg@root.com
Subject:   RE: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980809230024.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980808182200.E14475@freebie.lemis.com>

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On 08-Aug-98 Greg Lehey wrote:
> (following up to -hackers)
> 
> On Thursday,  6 August 1998 at 23:44:39 -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>>
>>    I just looked at the patch. Other than some KNF style bugs, it seems
>>    okay.
>> I don't have any AMD K5/K6 machines, however, so I can't test it and won't
>> be committing it.
>>    If it could get wider circulation - perhaps by posting a note to hackers
>> asking for testers, then I think there would be less hesitation in getting
>> it committed.
> 
> I've grabbed the code and will try it out and report.
> 
> Greg

One note, I just found out that this will only work on on certain chipsets (I
think Intel Triton TX, but I could be wrong, so don't quote me on that.)

John Baldwin
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