[intel-platform-discuss] Thanks a bunch to our Intel colleagues

[Jim Grisanzio]

Sherry Moore wrote:
> I would like to thank our Intel colleagues Ashok (Ashok.Raj at intel.com),
> Bob (Robert.A.Kasten at intel.com), Rajesh (rajesh.shah at intel.com) and
> Dave (David.C.Stewart at intel.com) for their significant contributions to
> the recent putbacks from the Intel project team.
> 
>     6495392 use monitor/mwait for halting idle CPUs where supported
>     6558456 Need to support microcode update on Intel platforms
>     6495401 cpuid based cache hierarchy awareness
>     6563585 prtconf reports wrong cache-level on x86 systems having 4MB
> 	    (associative=16, line-size=64) L2 cache
>     6574102 Need to add extended family/model/stepping info to
> 	    cpuid_pass1() for Intel processors
> They helped us in every stage of the projects, including design,
> coding, reviewing, pre- and post- integration testing.  Without their
> dedication none of the progress would have been possible.  Thank
> you, Ashok, Bob, Rajesh and Dave!


Bonnie updated the request-sponsor table, so these putbacks above are 
now listed among all the OpenSolaris code contributions:
http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/

I'll keep track of the Intel project contributions here as well:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/code-contributions/

Jim
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