Re: SMP and 2.1.120 and APIC

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
9 Sep 1998 06:47:22 GMT

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980908201410.27801A-100000@z.ml.org>,
Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote:
>
>> Here's a nicer fix from the archives
>
>Yes, that one is nicer. I could however, recite the makeshift one from
>memory. I assume .121 will include this correct fix. I figured the person
>could survive with f00f for one revision.

I have an alternate (and much simpler) fix for the thing, but I don't
have access to any dual Pentiums, so I'll make a pre-2.1.121-2 one of
these days and ask people to test it out.

And I'd better add a comment to myself so that I don' tmess up the
check_bugs() things any more after that ;)

Linus

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