Andreas Herrmann wrote:
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> 
> For Intel all family 0xf CPUs, and family 6 CPUs starting with model
> 15 are whitelisted.
> 

Arg, sorry, I read the code brokenly.  You're right, of course.

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> There seem to be other Intel CPUs that advertise PAT support.
> See cpuinfo output at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags
> E.g. Pentium M (model 13), Celeron (model 6), Pentium III (model 8).
> (Not sure how correct this information is, though)

Yes, those all have PAT enabled.

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> Turn the white- into a blacklist for those remaining CPUs until they
> are verified?

Yes, that would be a suitable course of action; moving it to 
Intel-specific code.  Then the Intel people can worry about lifting the 
remaining blacklisted CPUs.

	-hpa

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