> Anyway, this approach still needs to be debugged, but I'm told by intel
> that it should indeed work, and I have a patch for people to try out.
> Right now the patch is only for 2.1.x (relative to 2.1.65, in fact), but
> once it has turned out to be a good patch we can very easily back-port it
> into 2.0.x too - just to make sure that all the corner cases are squashed.
This works on a single-processor i586/100, stepping 6,
with an SMP-enabled kernel.
tlr
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