yes, it will break P5 SMP boxes, because check_bugs() makes the interrupt
vector table read only. smp_begin() doesn't like this, when setting up io-apic,
because it needs to change the interrupt vector table.
The order has been this way for a long time, but got changed in 2.1.112 and
changed back in 2.1.115, because of the P5 SMP problems.
Thomas.
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