That would be a really ugly solution.
A somewhat nicer possibility would be to move the stuff into Powertweak
(http://linux.powertweak.com)
I intend to move some of the kernel optimisations there anyway.
> To address your first point, I think the f00f bugfix has to
> be kernel space. It seems to mess with mm things (does this indicate how
> little I understand about it? :)
>From my understanding, the fix involves aligning pages to certain boundaries
or some similar voodoo, so this is done cleaner (and easier) in
kernel-space.
> - do some undocumented magic provided by (or reverse
> engineered from) Cyrix, that seems to modify the CPU behaviour when
> executing the offending instruction, making to do a noop
> afterwards. I don't know of any problems caused by this.
I'm assuming this to be the 'four poke' magic that I found.
Something like this could easily be added to Powertweak, but I've
no 686 to test on.
regards,
Dave.
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