On 25 Nov 11, at 23:09, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: > 25.11.2011 21:00, Tomas Hajny пиŃĐľŃ: > >> > >> Isn't the fact that it's missing in i386-linux RTL more an omission of the > >> respective platform maintainer rather than a hint that it might be > >> specific to Windows (and specifically to old Windows)? > > > > > > Extending my previous comment after digging a bit more: > > > > 1) Google reveals > > (http://us.generation-nt.com/update-amd-athlon-opteron-athlon64-prefetch-errata-help-182678371.html) > > Yep. Just search for 'AMD Athlon errata', not for 'AMD prefetch bug' :) > > > that current Linux kernel includes a workaround for this problem (I was > > able to find the concrete kernel source file with the workaround also). > > Apparently, the problem was discovered in 2003 (already in 2.6.x Linux > > kernel series). This means that any operating systems / kernels older than > > that may suffer. I have no clue whether Microsoft included a fix into one > > of their later Windows versions / service packs, nor whether it might have > > been fixed for other operating systems (and since when). > > > Patch for kernel 2.4 is mentioned on that page, too. Together with 2.6 it > probably covers all > possible x86 Linux kernels that FPC can compile for.
Yes, but I mentioned 2.6 to indicate that it was at the time of 2.6 series (and thus it's only available in later 2.4.x versions; older 2.4.x and 2.6.x versions would be probably still supported by FPC). Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
