Jan Engelhardt wrote: > And, the last thing, distributor kernels are often compiled for i586 to > be generic to all users. But some users may actually run them on i686, > and these users would like to have VMI (speculation :-). Which would > include a forceful patch to Kconfig to have the VMI option available > with CONFIG_M586. > We can reenable all these things eventually. We hacked them out to get around some of the awful hacks required for these older machines, (F00F bug protection, broken APICs, etc).
