Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

From: Harold Oga (ogah@home.com)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 04:47:42 EST

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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:08:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>Could people with Athlons please verify that pre3 works for them?
>
>It's basically Andrea's patch, but I moved the FPU save/restore games away
>from arch/i386/lib/mmx.c, so that everything is properly done in one place
>and others call the appropriate helper functions instead of thinking that
>they know how the lazy FP switching is done.
Hi Linus,
Ok, 2.4.1-pre3 seems to work fine for me on my Thunderbird 900MHz system.
At least, XFree86 4.0.1 starts properly, and the output of ps aux looks
correct again, which wasn't the case with 2.4.1-pre1 (I never tried
2.4.1-pre2).

-Harold

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