Re: 2.6.14: CR4 not needed to be inspected on the 486 anymore?

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 11:37:05 EST


On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> While this is at least no worse in the nested fault case than earlier
> kernels, I really wish I had one of those weird 486s so I could test the
> faulting mechanism. It seems the trap handling code has gotten quite

What's so weird about 486s? Besides, for testing it doesn't have to be
one -- you will get away with a 386, too. I have neither anymore, but
there are people around still using them.

Maciej
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