On Thursday 20 January 2011 20:22:52 Ted Unangst wrote: > I know miod suggested the ifdef, but is there any benefit? Is there > any reason to believe whatever this bug is doesn't affect the same > silicon on i386? (Or that the same rev is different silicon?) On the > flipside, besides being a little slower, is there any harm to i386 by > enabling the cap?
I don't see any and it just adds an ugly ifdef in MI code. The hw errata isn't specific to any arch, its just the chip is a lot more common in sparc64 systems vs i386. No harm, just slower. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
