Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

From: Ian Stirling (root@mauve.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 25 2000 - 14:37:10 EST


>
> timw@splhi.com (Tim Wright) wrote on 24.12.00 in <20001224125023.A1900@scutter.internal.splhi.com>:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
> > There was a similar thread to this recently. The issue is that if you
> > choose the wrong processor type, you may not even be able to complain.
>
> Hmm ... I think I can see ways around that (essentially similar to the 16
> bit bootstrap code), but it may indeed be more trouble than it's worth.

What about a simple solution,
"Ok, Booting the kernel for i486+fpu and above."

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