Re: Ideas for v2.1

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:50:44 +0100 (BST)

> > Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
> > Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
> Only if they are ALWAYS printed on ANY failure

The normal failure mode of these two is

Checking 'hlt' instruction...
(Hang...)

Thus we can't not print it out

> Re-write 'update' (or eliminate it alltogether) so that it can be APM aware for
> laptops. (I realize that this is ix86 specific).

Update no longer exists. The kernel generates the bdflush threads for you.

Alan