On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, AndroSyn wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, linux kernel account wrote:
>
> > I dont mean to sound thick, but, where is it? :)
> Oops...forgot to include it...silly me....
>
> >
> > Is this patch feature wise mature enough for kernel inclusion? (I.e. is it
> > a config option and/or is it commandline disableable.. Does it detect when
> > it can operated and when it cant (does it only bother on intel chips)?
> I have it been using it for close to 3 months now. It seems pretty stable
> to me. Its a config option of course...and as far as I can tell it'll
> only really benefit intel cpus.
>
> > Does it work with SMP?)
> I don't have a SMP machine to try it on....
>
> >
> > Is this patch stibility wise mature currently? (Could I toss it on a
> > production server and expect not to get fired because of it locking of
> > corupting memory)
> The only problems I've heard of is with some video cards...
>
> Any other problems I'm not sure of, basically I've just updated the patch
> from 2.1.40 so it'll apply cleanly to 2.1.63-VGER. I forget who the
> orginal author is though, but I'm sure hes on linux-kernel...
>
> Laters,
>
> Aaron
>
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