On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 14:10 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:49 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Because it makes it easier to write other code? We don't really > > want any unnecessary limiting assumptions in arch/i386 just because > > of some obscure machine with one user. > > Really? I don't see it that way. I did a lot of work back in 2000/2001 > to break x86 of its remapped CPU assumptions ... it's been operating > nicely for 6 years, I don't see a reason to break it now. I agree with James, it's just that I can't test it. I'll send you my patch set when I'm done, please test... Thanks! Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law
