On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 02:16:00PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > AMD sold two separate SKUs: the Athlon XP and the Athlon MP. > Only the latter was supposedly "certified" for use in multi-processor > boards. People found out however that sometimes the XP's 'worked' > if you modded them (see > http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/How-to-Transform-an-Athlon-XP-into-an-Athlon-MP/24)
Haha, that was a fun read. Closing fuses with a pencil - this reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QihBIewyrY > I doubt anyone is actually even running such a system any more on > a modern kernel, and any weird crashes would be written off more by > "you're running 10+ year old hardware, it's probably broken" than > "it was never meant to do that". Yeah, we can kill amd_k7_smp_check() but I don't see why - it doesn't hurt anyone right now. I don't care all that much either way, though - whatever. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
